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25^ Infantry Regiments 

TOGETHER WITH A ROSTER OF BOTH REGIMENTS AND THE LAST KNOWN 
ADDRESS OF ALL THAT COULD BE OBTAINED. 




Rcc:irr.ental Eadge. 



Edited and Compiled 



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BY DR. W. A. NEAIv, 

Assistant Surgeon ist Missouri Engineers, Secretary and Historian of the 
Society of the ist Missouri Engineers. 



1889: 



donohue and HENNEBERRY 

Printers and Binders 

Nos. 407-425 Dearborn Street 

CHICAGO, ILL. 

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PREFACE. 




^HE fact that the greater part of what is called 
history consists of variations of the quarrels and 
fights of mankind, shows that, after all, the state 
of war is a natural state, and that the intervals of 
peace have thus far been merely restraining 
spells to be used to recuperate for other contests. 
Is not the most popular maxim to-day, "In time 
of peace prepare for war " ? When the hostilities 
have actually commenced, the individual is utterly lost in the surging 
crowd, and even an organization as large as a regiment is of no 
account except as part of a mass to be controlled by some master 
mind. Exceptions are rare, especially in such a stupendous machine 
as was the Union Army in the late Rebellion, so that when a small 
l>art, as was the " Engineer Regiment of Missouri, " earn^ for itself 
a name and place, as did that Regiment, it shows an aggregate of a 
great amount of talent and physical force, thoroughly organized 
and well directed. 

The Regiment was nearly always separated, on duty in detached 
portions, so that few of its members knew the whole. It is the 
province of the compiler and editor of this book to embody the 
recital of the operations of the different detachments, so that our 
children can look with pride upon what their fathers have achieved. 
Every General under whom the Missouri Engineer Regiment 
served in its different organizations — as the Engineer Regiment of 
the West, the Twentv-fifth Missouri Infantry and the First Missouri 
Engineers — complimented its men and officers, and repeatedly said 
that there was not another regiment whose officers and men could 
be compared with us for appearance, health and good conduct ! 
Especially the good conduct. 

This history was projected at the first reunion of the First Mis- 
souri Engineers, held in St. Louis, Missouri, September, 1887, when 
about one hundred of that Regiment and the Twentv-fifth Missouri 
were present. It was there resolved that a joint history of the two 
organizations should be prepared, and Dr. W. A. Xeal was elected 



VI PREFACE. 

secretary and liistorian of the society of the First Missouri Engi- 
neers, and was directed to prepare a creditable book, giving said 
history, with as complete a roster of both regiments as possible. 
Lieutenant Parker's Historical Eecord of the Engineer Regiment of 
the West to the consolidation, December 31, 1863, with the Twenty- 
fifth Missouri, has been largely drawn from, and a large amount of 
manuscript has been furnished by Colonel J. W. Bissell, Lieutenant- 
Colonel E. T. Yan Horn, Captain G. B. Brackett, Captain B. F. 
Buzard, Lieutenant J. Ricketts, Lieutenant L. R. Lancaster, H. 
Feuerbach, of Company A, and others. The first thought was to 
write a book of only one hundred pages or so, but the material 
accumulated far beyond that, and many of the surviving comrades 
demanded a handsome and creditable book, that would compare 
with those gotten out by other regiments, so that the work has 
grown into a book of four hundred pages, and an endeavor has been 
made to secure an engraved portrait of every one that could be ob- 
tained. The comrades or their friends have borne the expense of 
these .igravings. The maps and other scenes have been engraved 
expressly for this book. 

The large amount of work involved in this undertaking was 
not comprehended in the start, the roster of three thousand names 
alone requiring a whole year of research and correspondence to 
verify and get present addresses. Then ihe immense amount of 
correspondence, requiring the inditing of several thousand letters. 
In the publication of this work there is no prospect of pecuniary 
gain to any one ; the effort has been to please all. The response so 
far has been fair, and the desire is to see a copy in the hands of 
everv one that serv^ed in either the Eno-ineer Reg-iment of the West, 
the Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry, or the First Missouri Engineers. 
With this end in view, preparations were made for an edition of 
one thousand copies. 

The officers of the Reunion Society of the First Missouri 
Engineers, Captain B. F. Buzard, President ; Lieutenant Joshua 
Ricketts, Vice-President ; Lieutenant Paulas Gast, Treasurer, have 
acted as a publication committee ; and Colonel J. W. Bissell, Captain 
B. F. Buzard and some others have rendered financial aid, without 
which the book could not have been gotten out in good form, but it 
is confidently believed that it will compare favorably with any of 
the regimental histories that have appeared. 

The roster alone is worth all the effort and expense of the 
publication. 



PKEFACE. Vii 

Proud to recall the memory of every comrade, whether living 
or dead, and of the fact of association with them in the days when 
they were making a record, and glad of the permission to have been 
the means of putting in a connected and enduring form some record 
of their achievements, this book is left to them to approve or condemn. 

W. A. NEAL, Historian. 
Elkhart, Ind., December 28, 1888. 



HISTORY OF THE 

First Missouri Engineers 



Part I. 



organization. 



THE 



''ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST." 



MISSOURI volunteers. 




X July, 1861, the following " Proposition to Enroll 

an Engineer Regiment " was made by J. W. Bissell, 

Colonel of the then called Tenth Missouri A^olun- 

teers, three months. 

" I propose, within the next thirty or forty 

da3\s, to enroll within the States of Missouri, Iowa 

and Illinois, a full regiment of men who shall be? 

all of them, either mechanics, artisans, or persons 

accustomed to work as laborers under mechanics. 

" When a full company is formed, they are to be mustered into 

service at some convenient point, and then sent to the St. Louis 

Arsenal for military instruction. 

" No man shall be mustered until he shall have been examined 

and approved by the Regimental Surgeon. 

" J. W. BISSELL, 

" Colonel Tenth Regiment Missouri Volunteers." 

I approve of the above. FRANK P. BLAIR, 

Colonel First Regiment Missouri Artillery. 

I concur. J. C. FREMONT. 

Acting upon this authority, he shortly after issued a circular 

address, calling for volunteer companies for the same, which was to 

be known as the " Eno-ineer Reo-iment of the West." The circular 



10 THE ENGINEER KEGIMENT OF TUE WEST. 

held out substantially the following inducements : 1. That, in addi- 
tion to the regular army pay and allowances the mechanics were to 
receive forty and the laborers twenty-five cents per day, extra. 
2. That the Regiment would not be exposed to the guard duty of 
other regiments. 

Under this call many who had, in consideration of the small 
pay of soldiers, halted between the convictions of duty to country 
and family, resolved to avail themselves of the superior advantages 
of the offer. Companies were raised and organized in the following- 
order : Company A was recruited at St. Louis and East St. Louis, 
in the early part of July, 1861, and rendezvoused at the St. Louis 
Arsenal. On the 8th of July it was partly organized by the election 
of J. H. Yreeland, Captain ; E. L. Jones, First Lieutenant, and 
Frank Daugherty Second Lieutenant, with Eichard Eyan, Orderly 
Sergeant ; Louis Young (afterward Lieutenant in Fourth United 
States Colored Troops) was next Orderly Sergeant, folio wed by James 
McClure. On the 20th of the same month the Company was 
mustered into the United States service by Captain Tracy, United 
States Army, with a minimum number, which was afterward raised 
to the maximum. 

Like all other companies, A had some exceptionally fine men 
among its members; iron molders and railroad engineers, with 
other skilled mechanics. There was James Cunningham, William 
Cross, William Frazier, Henry Feuerbach and John Lewis, the most 
intellig-ent and ao-reeable of them all. He was killed at Tuscumbia, 
June 1, 1862, and, next to Sergeant Eichard Eyan, was the ablest 
man in the Company. Probably Lewis or Eyan were more capable 
to command than the real Captain, but they did not recruit the 
men, and the system of organizing a regiment was at the time to 
appoint as officers those who recruited the men. 

Company B was recruited in Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, and 
organized on the 28th day of July, 1861, by the election of Charles . 
T. Eo well. Captain ; Jesse D. Anderson, First Lieutenant; John 
E. Murphy, Second Lieutenant, and Joshua Eicketts (afterward 
promoted to Lieutenant, Company C), Orderly Sergeant. On the 
30th of the same month the Company proceeded to St. Louis, 
numbering one hundred men, but owing to the large number rejected 
by the Examining Surgeon, it was reduced to eighty -four, exclusive 
of officers. With this number it was mustered into service by Cap- 
tain Tracv, United States Armv, at the St. Louis Arsenal, on the 
nio-ht of the 5th of August, 1861. Captain Eowell, refusing to mus- 



MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS. 11 

ter, was relieved from duty, Lieutenant Anderson assuming com- 
mand of the Company. So far as known, neither of them were 
ever commissioned in the Company. 

Company C was recruited at Prairie City, Illinois, and organized 
August 4, 1861, by the election of Dewitt C. Folsom, Captain ; Will- 
iam G. Patten, First Lieutenant, and Asa K. Grow, Second Lieu- 
tenant, It arrived in St. Louis on the 17th, and was mustered into 
the service on the 19th of August, 1861, by Captain Tracy. About 
seventy men were mustered, but the Company was afterward 
recruited to the maximum, Prairie City also contributed many 
men who were recruited for but could not be mustered into this 
Company. 

Company D was recruited partly in St. Louis, though there 
were recruits from Flora, Qlney, Kushville, Carlyle and other places 
in Illinois, When it came to the organization of the Company there 
was some clashing of interests. E. M. Hill, representing sixty-six 

men, and Griffith, representing twelve men, each claimed the 

Captaincy. The twelve men recruited by Griffith refused to be 
mustered unless their leader was made Captain, and without them 
an organization could not be effected. The sixty-six men stoutly 
protested against so unjust a claim, and with a good degree of reason 
and justice claimed that he who represented so large a majority 
should be entitled to the honor of the command. It was in this 
state of affairs that Colonel Bissell interfered, with the statement 
that the parties could have one hour to compromise the matter, at 
the expiration of which time, if the different squads were not con- 
solidated, he would take the matter in hand himself. Finding 
Griffith unyielding. Hill quieted the clamor of his men by quietly 
admitting the claim of his opponent. The organization which was 

effected then, stood on the 15th of August, 1861, thus : 

Griffith, Captain; E. M. Hill, First Lieutenant; M. D. Edinger, 
Second Lieutenant, and Charles W. Morrison, Orderly Sergeant. 
Colonel Bissell, however, refused to tolerate the injustice of Captain 
Griffith, and that officer was summarily dismissed without even 
receiving a commission. On the 31st of October the Company — 
seventv-eio-ht men — was mustered into the service bv Colonel Bis- 
sell, and shortly after Lieutenant Hill was promoted to the Cap- 
taincy. The vacancy was filled by Charles R. Thompson, who 
came into the company with a squad, filling it up to the maximum. 

Com))any E was recruited at Adrian, Michigan, and was origi- 
nally recruited for the First Michigan Engineers, but as there was 



12 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

delay on the part of the Adjutant-General of that State in receiving 
them into service, it went to St. Louis and on the 19th of Auf^ust, 
1861, offered itself for admittance into Colonel Bissell's Regiment. 
This company was organized with eighty-four men, on the 13th of 
July, 1861, by the election of Samuel T. Nicholson, Captain ; T. W. 
Ilenion, First Lieutenant ; Benjamin F. Brown, Second Lieutenant, 
and Thomas G. Templeton, Orderly Sergeant. On the 23d of 
August, 1861, it was duly mustered into the service by Captain 
Tracy, United States Army. 

Company F was recruited in Dubuque, Iowa, and vicinity, for 
which purpose the following statement was issued in a poster, which 
was substantially the same as the one issued by Colonel Bissell : 

"THE ENGINEERING REGIMENT OF THE WEST." 
Major-General Fremont has authorized the raising of this Regiment in the 
Northwestern States, and the undersigned is duly authorized to raise a company 
for it in Dubuque. Its duties will be more of a mechanical than a military 
character, although the Company will be armed for its own protection, and drill 
the same as infantry, when not otherwise employed. Its duty will chiefly con- 
sist in building bridges, the mechanical work on fortifications, etc., for which 
the non-commissioned officers and privates will receive, in addition to the regu- 
lar pay of $13 per month, 40 cents per day, if mechanics, and 25 cents per day 
if laborers, thus making the pay of mechanics $24 per month and laborers about 
$20. All rations, clothing, bounties, and in fact every perquisite that belongs 
to any other branch of the service, belongs equally to this. 

A BOUNTY OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS 
has been authorized to be paid each recruit at the close of the war. The Govern- 
ment will furnish all tools required. Carpenters, wheelwrights, machinists, 
blacksmiths, and a few laborers- accustomed to work with mechanics, or of 
marked intelligence, will be received. 

It is intended that this Company shall be a first-rate one in every respect, 
and none will be received less than five feet six inches high, or of a shiftless 
character. M. Randolph. 

Dubuque, September 14, 1861. 

As no memoranda have been retained, the precise date of the 
organization of this Company is not known. William Tweeddale 
Avas elected Captain, M. Randolph, First Lieutenant ; S. W. Mattis, 
Second Lieutenant, and John McLaren, Orderly Sergeant. About 
the middle of the same month the Company came to St. Louis, 
where, after remaining in the receiving camp there a few days it 
went to the regimental camp near Sedalia, Missouri, and was there 
mustered into service on the 31st of October, 1861, by Colonel BisselL 

In the meantime the men became dissatisfied with Lieutenant 
Randolph, and petitioned for his removal, which was granted, and 



MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS." 13 

John D. Eowley presenting himself with a sufficient number of 
men, enlisted at Bloomington, Illinois, to fill the company to the 
maximum, was commissioned First Lieutenant in his place. 

Compan}^ G was raised at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, by M. 
S. Hasie, who was for a time recognized as Captain. G. L. 
Werth was elected First Lieutenant ; Charles E. Ilasie, Second Lieu- 
tenant, and Paulus Gast, Orderly Sergeant. The Company was 
mustered into the service with the full number of men on the 17th 
of September, 1861, by Colonel Bayles, of the Eleventh Missouri 
Infantry. About the 18th of November following the Company 
was sent to Bird's Point, Missouri, opposite Cairo, Illinois, where it 
was employedTorT military works until about the 8th of March, 1862, 
when it joined the Regiment at jSTew Madrid, Missouri, where for 
the first time the whole Eegiment was brought together. . 

Company H was raised in Paris, Illinois, and was organized 
about the 15th of September, 1861, with thirty-two men, electing 
Nathan Sand ford, Captain; L. Odenbaugh, First Lieutenant; J. C. 
Besier, Second Lieutenant, and Nathan Johns, Orderly Sergeant. 

This Company arrived at St. Louis, September 23, 1861, but 
not having a sufficient number of men. Lieutenant Besier was the 
only officer mustered. Captain Sandford and Lieutenant Oden- 
baugh returned to Paris, 111., for recruits, and on the 18th of October 
returned with about twenty. Captain Sandford did not rejoin the 
Company and was not mustered or commissioned. About the 25th 
of October, thirty-three unassigned recruits were attached to the 
Company by the order of Colonel Bissell, the Company, then num- 
bering eighty-five men, was mustered into the service on the 31st of 
October, 1861, by Colonel ]^)issell. The Company was increased 
from time to time by recruits, until in August, 1862, an enlargement 
of the number of men to the Company over the infantry maximum 
having been authorized by the War Department, it reached the 
number of one hundred and seven enlisted men. 

Company I was raised in Iowa, and was recruited In several 
counties under the supervision of Tf J. Dean, a private of the First 
Iowa Cavalry, who obtained his authorit}^ from Colonel Bissell. 
He was therefore by common consent acknowledged as Captain, and 
collected his men at Burlington. Twenty-one men were brought 
from Denmark, Lee county, b}'^ G. B. Brackett ; twenty-one from 
Louisa county, enlisted by Frank Bras; eight from McGregor, 
enlisted by one Brant ; ten from McGregor enlisted b}^ Sol- 
omon Goodrich, and fifteen from McGregor, enlisted by A. R. 



14 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

Prescott, In the choice of Lieutenants there was a conflict of 
interests, as might well be supposed from so many representatives 
of squads. In this condition of affairs, Captain Dean settled the 
controversy by selecting Brant as First Lieutenant, and G. B. 
Brackett as Second Lieutenant, on the 3d of October, 1861. Lieu- 
tenant Brant took about thirtv of the men to St. Louis, followed in 
a few days by about the same number under Captain Dean, whose 
squad was immediately mustered into the service by Lieutenant 
Sandford. 

Ca})tain Dean then returned to Burlington with Frank Bras 
for other recruits, but the Governor of the State of Iowa having 
issued an order forbidding the enlistment in regiments of other 
States, it was with difficulty he raised any more there. About the 
last of October, 1861, Captain Dean rejoined the Company, then at 
Sedalia, Missouri. In the meantime Lieutenant Brant, who had not 
yet been commissioned, was sumniarilj^ dismissed by Colonel Bissell, 
and Lieutenant Brackett promoted to fill his place. As there was 
not yet a sufficient number of men to secure the mustering in of 
Captain Dean, u])on his return to the Company he secured the aid o'f 
William Hill, wno added eighteen men to the roll, whom he had 
enlisted at Rushville, Illinois, and who was then appointed Second 
Lieutenant. The first muster of Company I as a full com})any was 
on the 31st of October, 1861, by Colonel Bissell, with ninety-six 
men; afterward increased bv recruits to the full maximum. Before 
mustering a formal organization was made and T. J. Dean was con- 
firmed as Captain ; G. B. Brackett as first Lieutenant and William 
Hill as Second Lieutenant, by a direct vote of the men of the 
Company. 

Company K was recruited at Burlington, Iowa, in September, 
1861. Some of the men were also enlisted at other points in the 
State ; twenty men at Wapello, Louisa Count}^, by T. W. Bailey, 
and about the same number at JN'ew London, Henry Count}^ by N. W. 
Wilcox. On the 1st of October the Company was organized by the 
election of A. J. Merritt as Captain ; T. W. Bailej'', First Lieuten- 
ant ; ]Sr. W. Wilcox, Second Lieutenant, and A. D. AVhitcomb, Orderly 
Sergeant. Lieutenant Wilcox not being present with his squad, 
there were only about sixty-five men at the organization of the 
Company, The 2d of October those present at Burlington started 
for St. Louis, followed on the 8th by Lieutenant Wilcox with his 
party. The first muster of Company K was at Sedalia, Missouri, 
with seventy-six men, afterward recruited to the required number. 



IN THE FIELD AT CAPE GIRARDEAU. 15 

The organization of tli^ companies completed and assembled in 
St. Louis, Missouri, with the exception of Companies A and G, the 
regimental roll numbered nine hundred and seven enlisted men. The 
regimental organization was completed October 31, 1861, and officers 
appointed as follows : J. W. Bissell, Colonel ; Charles E. Adams, 
Lieutenant-Colonel ; M. S. Hasie, Major ; A. Jacobson, Adjutant ; 
J. D.Ward, Regimental Quartermaster ; Charles S. Shelton, Surgeon ; 
Charles Knower, Assistant Surgeon ; C. A. Staples, Chaplain ; H. E. 
Hudson, Sergeant-Major ; Isaac Y. Fulsom, Quartermaster-Ser- 
geant; William H. Connett, Commissary Sergeant; AVilliam A. 
Neal, Hospital Steward. 

THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST IN THE 
FIELD AT CAPE GIRARDEAU. 

The first service required of this Regiment was on the 6th of 
August, 1861. Companies A and B were ordered to East St. Louis, 
on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, to load ordnance and 
ordnance stores on board the steamer Empress. When loaded, they 
were started to Cape Girardeau the same evening, arriving there 
on the 7th. They at once set to work on the fortifications at that 
place under Captain Henry Flad, of the Topographical Corps of 
Engineers (Captain Flad was afterward commissioned Captain of 
Company B). The four works constructed at that place have amply 
sustained the credit of those who planned and executed them, as, 
after the garrison had been reduced to a mere handful of men, they 
resisted successfully every assault of the combined forces of th-e 
enemy in Missouri and Arkansas under General Marmaduke. 

At Cape Girardeau, as Captain Rowell did not rejoin his Com- 
pany, B, under orders of Colonel Marsh, of the Twentieth IlHnois, 
Commander of the post, the Company held an election for officers and 
chose J. D. Anderson, Captain ; John E. Murph}?^ First Lieutenant, 
and Joshua Ricketts, Second Lieutenant, on the 16th of August, 
1861. In March, 1862, Captain Anderson resigned and Henry Flad 
was appointed Captain. 

When Companies A and B first arrived at Cape Girardeau there 
were no tents and Company A was quartered in the town. Company 
B on board the steamboat Illinois. After several days tents were sup- 
plied. A Lieutenant Stone was the efficient Drill Master who taught 
the men their manual of arms, and was greatly esteemed bv them 
for his kindness and patience, and they will always remember him 



16 



THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE AVEST 



whotauoht them to be soldiers. Dr. C. S. Slielton. the Regimental 
Surgeon, joined the detachment soon after their arrival and remained 
there until spring, when he moved with the rest to Xew Madrid. 

Xothing very startling occurred during the stay at Cape Girar- 
deau. Attacks were occasionally threatened by demonstrations of 
small squads of the enemy ; one time they aj^proached in force, 
Avhen the gunboats came up from Cairo and frightened them away. 
Forao-ino- was strictlv forbidden, but this was soon after chano-ed. 
It was related in camp near New Madrid, in March, 1S62. that Gen- 
eral Pope stopped in front of the tents of Companies A and B, and 
pointing to some fat hogs and cattle belonging to a Confederate 
captain, said : " Sokliers. 1 don't want you to destroy any property: 







Camp Cif Batudion of Eugiawr Kegtmeiit, undear uomiua&d of.Maj.^. S^llasie, at Caj* tli larJfaulMl^^^Tmg jn,to \vipler 

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but I do not want you to sutfer for anything to eat." Three days 
after that those hogs and cattle had been "put where they would do 
the most good." Company A refused to take greenbacks from the 
Paymaster for their tii-st pay, and consequently went without their 
money until the end of the next two months. The work called 
Fort George, or Fort A, was first finished ; then forts B. C and D 
were built, commanding the approaches to the town. The forts were 
well mounted with larire twentv-four and sixtv-four pound siei:e £uns. 
The last of October orders were given to prepare to go into winter 
quarters. (A view of the Avork and fortifications are given here- 
with, which was drawn by Captain Tressillion, Assistant Draughts- 
man.^ During the engagement of the troops from Pilot Knob, near 
Jacksonville, thirty miles northwest of Cape Girardeau, orders 
were received by Major llasie to build a bridge across TVhite River 



LAMINE BRIDGE. 17 

to provide for our retreatiRg troo])s. The oi'ders were received at 
1 p. M. and by 11 o'clock that night two coni])anies were on the 
ground with tools. The only material was the trees standing on 
each side of the stream ; from these tiie bridge was constructed and 
completed by 5 o'clock the next morning, just as the troops came up. 
The bridge was destroyed as soon as the crossing had been effected. 
The policy of the Engineer Regiment toward the slave and the 
fugitive, here, as on all occasions, was to relieve, succor and protect 
the weak, oppressed and persecuted. 

LAMINE BRIDGE. 

September 16, 18G1. — Those remaining at the St. Louis Arsenal 
were moved into a camp, about a half mile in a northwest direction, 
into tents, naming the new camp Genesee. On the 19th all, except 
a squad to receive recruits as tney came in, went by railroad, on the 
Missouri Pacific, to Lamine Bridge, in Cooper County, Missouri, near 
Otterville, and named the station Camp Rochester. Headquarters 
remained here until the 26tliof October, 1861. The men worked on 
the railroad bridge and fortifications to defend it. Such was the 
urgency for the bridge to be finished that some of the men worked 
thirtv-six hours straight through without rest. 

Soon after the arrival at Lamine a detail of Company D Avas 
sent to Jefferson City to repair railroad switches, and returned to 
camp at Lamine October 9th. 

October 14tli the camp was broken up in St. Louis, and all 
moved to Lamine. At this camp there were quite a number of cases 
of typhoid fever, and camp diarrhoea was quite ]irevalent, many cases 
becoming chronic, and most of the men being affected to some extent. 

It was at this camp near the Lamine Bridge that the "Battle 
of the Cow Bells " took ])lace. One night a German of Company F 
was on guard, Sergeant David Armstrong Sergeant of the Guard. 
He heard a peculiar clicking noise, that seemed to be approaching 
his beat, and thought that a number of tlie enemy were approacliing 
stealthily to surprise the camp, taking the clicking noise to be the 
cocking of muskets. The guard called loudly : 

" Halt ! Who comes there 'i Halt, or I shoot ! " 

The noise still advancing, bang! went the guard's sixty-nine 
caliber Belgian musket, awakening the echoes of the night. 

Sergeant Armstrong, half asleep, jumped up, and in his sten- 
torian voice, that could be heard for miles, 3'elled, " Turn out the 



18 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

guard ! " The wliole camp was awakened, and sprang for their 
guns; the long roll was beaten ; the Sergeant and the OtRcer of the 
Guard investigated, and found a gentle cow with a cracked bell 
slowly browsing toward the camp. This engagement was thereafter 
known as the " Battle of the Cow Bells," and though a trifling 
affair, furnished a good deal of merriment to while away the tedium 
of the soldiers in camp. 

About the 2Gtli of October, 1861, the Camp at Lamine was 
broken up and the Regiment removed to near Sedalia, on Flat Creek, 
naming the camp after the Major, Camp Hasie. The intention at 
the time was to assist General Fremont's campaign against Spring- 
field, which movement, as is well known, resulted in a failure, and 
General Fremont was superseded by General Hunter. Our Regi- 
ment remained in this camp until the return of the expedition under 
command of General Hunter. Company F was detailed to run a 
saw-mill in the neighborhood, and the men worked at getting out 
timbers for a large bridge and lumber for quartermaster storehouses 
at Sedalia. The bridge was 700 feet long, but before it was quite 
completed work was stopped, on the 21st of November, 1861, by order 
of General Sherman. 

While passing through Sedalia the train arrived, about twelve 
o'clock in the night. Some of the men had to ride outside the freight 
cars and when they got to Sedalia were cold and benumbed, when 
they started out, about a dozen of them, to find something to warm 
them up; went to the New England Hotel, where at first they were 
refused, though they offered to pay, but, as the proprietor said he 
kept a bar, the men threatened to break in and help themselves. He 
said he would open and wait on them. Each took a drink and paid 
25 cents. Just then the men were called to fall in and w^ere taken 
to a loft over a livery stable to sleep. In a few minutes their 
stomachs began to rebel. Some of the men vomited most oE the 
nio-ht, and were very sick the next morning. One, Smith Bradley, 
w^as sent to the hospital and died a few days thereafter. The 
liquor had been poisoned. Lieutenant Randolph thought the men 
were drunk, and was very angry and had a number of them 
punished. The victims were ver}^ angry at the landlord of the New 
Eno-land House, and threatened to get even with him. About a 
month after this the house was burned down, and it was never 
known how it happened ; but James Smith and a chum of his passed 
the night of the fire in Sedalia, and as they were two of the victims 
and rather reckless fellows, they might throw some light on it. 
Smith died before the end of the w\ar. 



THE WINTER CAMP NEAR OTTERVILLE. 19 

Camp was broken December 11th and the Regiment started to 
march westward, but was stopped at Georgetown, four miles Avest of 
Sedaha, and ordered by General Pope, then in command, to the 
Cantonment near Otterville, where they went into camp December 
19, 1801. 

THE WINTER CAMP NEAR OTTERVILLE. 

While in camp near Sedalia the measles broke out amono- the 
men and was epidemic from November, 1861, to March, 1862, a 
dozen or more dying from the disease and its effects. 

It was at this camp that the first official regimental report was 
made to the Adjutant-General, on the 11th day of November, 1861, 
from which the following extract is made : 

This is a working regiment comiDOsed almost exclusively of mechanics; 
details are daily made from each company as working parties. The Reoiment is 
provided with every kind of tools and materials, and can do any kind of 
mechanical work whatever. On the first day of October, 1861, the Reo-iment had 
just completed a railroad bridge across the Lamine River, opening the Pacific 
Railroad to Sedalia; they then furnished the plan and made approaches for teams 
and a military road from the country road, occupying about sixty men for two 
weeks. They constructed at that point a good breastwork for five hundred men 
and have got well under way earthworks for three thousand men; have built a 
permanent hospital and bakery, and got out the most of the material for bullet- 
23roof buildings for one thousand men. A detachment of two companies was at 
Jefferson City ten days, building extra track for military operations. Twenty 
men were at Tipton on the same service. Twenty men were at Sedalia 
making stables and corrals for public horses. Working parties are now 
engaged every day making a road between Sedalia and Warsaw, for the 
transportation of military stores. The work includes a bridge and trestle 
nearly seven hundred feet long, to procure the lumber for which they have pre- 
pared and put in operation a deserted saw-mill near the route. From twenty to 
thirty men are daily employed in repairing broken army supply wagons, to do 
which they have got out their own timber, burnt their own coal, etc. Thirty 
men worked at Otterville repairing buildings taken as hospitals for the sick. 
Regular time books are kept by each Orderly Sergeant, which are daily checked 
in the Regimental Quartermaster Department. 

The above report gives a general outline of the manner in which 
the Engineer Regiment was employed up to that date ; and but little 
could be added except to specify the particular work assigned to 
each company. At this time many hours were daily devoted to 
drill, to discipline the men for the many months of field service that 
were to probably follow, and the officers as well were wholly with- 
out experience. 



20 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

H. M. Snmner (who was afterward commissioned) was ap- 
pointed Drill Master. 

Work was suspended on the wagon road November 12, 1861, 
and on the bridge over Flat Creek on the 21st. The movement to 
Otterville commenced on December 11th, where the Regiment went 
into camp December 19th naming it Camp Mildred. Company I 
was left at Sedalia to erect Government l)nildings and Company F 
at the saw-mill on Flat Creek, known as Smith's saw-mill and named 
by them Camp Julia. 

As the Regiment was filled and mustered at this camp on Flat 
Creek for the first time, it might be well to describe the men and 
relate some of the incidents that occurred there. 

WHY THE MARCH TO SPRINGFIELD WAS NOT MADE. 

Colonel Bissell had a great dislike and a supreme contempt for 
a lot of imported officers that General Fremont had about him. 
This was shared by Colonel Wood, who was really Fremont's 
right-hand man and did all the work, while the foreigners made 
all the show. Wood had to conceal his and do the best he could ; 
Bissell's was undisguised. 

At the time General Fremont was at Tipton, Missouri, prepar- 
ins: for his celebrated and much ridiculed chase after Price, Mrs. 
Fremont spoke quite harshly to Colonel Bissell, about the poor 
clothes he and his men wore while Major Zagonyi and the " body 
guard " were so well dressed and kept themselves so neat. The repl}'^ 
was that our Regiment was a working regiment and that we could 
not run a railroad and crowd things as we were then doing and pay 
much attention to dress. It was a coincidence that after that time 
Zagonyi never received any more boxes from New York, and after 
he left, fine overcoats were plenty among our officers, and the Ser- 
geants were not forgotten. 

About this time our Colonel was told that the Secretary of War 
and the Adjutant-General of the army were coming on post haste 
from Washington, and he was ordered to take a certain house that 
was pointed out, ask the owners to move out for a few days, and 
then to put it in first-rate order for the distinguished guests. They 
came in due time, and although their conferences were held under a 
tree with a faithful guard to care that no one came within ear shot, 
and though he did not see either of them or go anywhere near them, 
he is not bound to tell how he knew afterward all that was said. 
But he did know, as did certain other parties, that Price was way 



WHY THE MARCH TO SPKINGFIELD WAS NOT MADE. 21 

beyond the reach of our forces and that the march would be dis- 
astrous, and he made up his mind that this Regiment should not 
suffer. Fremont started off with his " body guard " and wagons 
loaded with 6mpty kegs to carry water for the men, and all sorts 
of fancy arrangements, while we received an order to proceed by 
rail to Sedalia, there to receive and receipt for a large number of 
wagons and oxen that were on their way from Kansas for the army, 
and then to make "a good military road, south toward Springfield.'^ 
Before the oxen arrived at Sedalia it was well known that the 
expedition was a failure, and as " a good military road " required a 
long bridge across the creek and flats south of Sedalia, that was of 
course built and we hope it stands to this day as a monument mark- 
ing the spot where our men went through the measles, which were 
then epidemic among the soldiers. 

The name of LeRoy Richardson often appears in these pages. 
He w^as a member of Company C. As a forager he was unrivaled, as a 
shirker of "camp dut}^" unequaled, but wonderfully faithful in any 
outside work which he thought would be for the good of the Regiment, 
especially of his own company, and most particularly for the inter- 
est of Mr. Richardson and "Company Q." He could not be induced 
to keep his gun in order, and one day Captain Patten brought him to 
the Adjutant's tent with his story that it had been stolen. When told 
that he would be charged with it at double the Government price 
for a new one, he asked for a pass for a da}^, and the privilege of re- 
turning a better one. The next day a regiment of Illinois troops 
passed on the railroad, one company of which was armed with Colt's 
repeating rifles. Soon afterward LeRoy presented Adjutant Jacob- 
son a new Colt's repeating rifle, and asked to have the account closed. 

One day he brought to the Colonel's tent an ill-favored Polish 
Jew, and said that Mr. Kotowsky had a finestockof goods which he 
would sell cheap. Mr. Kotowsky had prepared a price list, which 
was certainl}' fair, and LeRoy said that he would see that those 
prices should not be exceeded, so the permit was obtained to bring the 
wagon into camp. About a couple of hours afterward a discon- 
solate peddler complained to the Adjutant that he had no goods ! no 
money ! ! He could not deny that he had received a fair price in 
cash for each article and that LeRoy had put all the money into a 
box standing in the bottom of the wagon, that the box had not been 
opened as the money had been put through a hole in the top, but 
the faithful LeRoy had not been able to And out who cut the large 
hole through the bottom of the box and wagon ! I It has never been 



22 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

recorded that LeRoy thrashed any one for cutting the hole either at 
the top or bottom, but he did afterward admit that he thought at 
the time it was rather queer that Sergeant Armstrong should have 
traded out five two-dollar bills that had a corner torn off exactly the 
same way from each of them. 

At one station LeRoy had made the acquaintance of a family a 
few miles from the camp, where he could always get a good meal 
and as many pies as he could carry away for one dollar, Confed- 
erate njid cou7ite7'fe{t at that; he could not, however, buy any chickens 
or turkeys. As it was a standing rule in his mess to have turkey for 
Sunday dinner, he resorted to an old dodge. One day he told his 
country friends that the next night there was to be a foraging party 
out, and that certain roosts had been inspected and marked, so it was 
agreed that all the fowls in that neighborhood should be gathered 
in his host's cellar. His quondam friends never saw him again to 
ask him how it hap]:)ened that the foragers went straight to this same 
cellar and nowhere else. 

One day while a detachment on the steamboat Crescent City 
was near Island l^o. 18, LeEoy came on board and reported that 
he had discovered and landed a flatboat, in which were a man with 
his family, and a large number of watermelons. While a soldier 
ranks watermelons next to chickens, it is always understood that the 
manner of possession must be surreptitious on the face of it, there 
was no possible reason why there should be confiscation, and a pur- 
chase was not to be considered. LeEoy thought he was equal to 
the occasion, so an officer was sent to examine and report ; when lo 
and behold ! it was found that the boat had a small deep hold, in 
which were five barrels of whisky, presumably for the use of the 
rebel scouts down the river. The Doctor added the whisky to his 
stores and " Company Q," as LeEo}^ and his adherents were called, 
feasted upon the melons. Dr. Knower was rather hard, when 
some of them came and asked for a little whisky, because they had 
the belly-ache, by answering, that perhaps a little more melon 
would be effectual. 

THE SIXTY-NINE CALIBER. 

At Camp Ilasie, Flat Creek, every few days the men were put 
through the battalion drill and practiced firing at a target. The 
arms were the old-fashioned United States flint-lock smooth-bore 
musket and Belgian musket, both altered to cap lock and rifled to 
sixty-nine calibre, and the recoil in firing was fearful. The men 



PROMOTIONS DURING DECEMBER, 1861. 



23 



had to clean, load and fire them off nearly every day. Jack Sanders, 
of Company E, declared he did not want his shoulder bruised into a 
jelly holding his musket, and said to his chum, Soper, of the same 
company : " Let me fasten it to your back with your belt, and you get 
on your hands and knees and fire it off that way." "All right," says 
Soper, and proceeded to put it into action. The muzzle happened 
to be close to Soper's ear, and when it went off nearly deafened 
him, and in the recoil the gun jumped back and sideways, just 
missing Sander's shins and sending Soper sprawling over sideways. 




EXPERIMENT OF JACK SANDERS. 

The men were raw to the service ; army life and food was some 
thing new, although plenty and wholesome. One day a new arrival 
went to Colonel Bissell and told him that he wanted something to 
eat; that he could not eat those "wide-out" things, meaning the 
hard army bread or crackers ; those served out then were about 
six inches square and a half inch thick, but with the Engineer Eegi- 
ment the name, "Wide out" was adopted in place of hard-tack. 

PROMOTIONS DURING DECEMBER, 18G1. 

December 20, 1861, Henry Flad was appointed Captain of 
Company B. 



24 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

January 6, 1862, Lieutenant "W. G. Patten was promoted Cap- 
tain of Company C. 

The sanle date M. Randolph was commissioned First Lieutenant 
of Company C, and Sergeant W. H. Connett Second Lieutenant. 

December 30 1861, Lieutenant Henion w^as promoted Captain 
of Company E. 

January 1, 1862, H. M. Sumner was appointed Second Lieu- 
tenant of Company A. 

January 15, 1862, H. E. Hudson was appointed Regimental 
Quartermaster. 

During December and January the following resignations were 
accepted : December 3d, Captain S. T. Nicholson, and December 23d, 
Lieutenant B. F. Brown, of Company E ; December 30th, Captain 
D. C. Fulsom and Lieutenant A. K. Grow, of Company C ; January 
23, 1862, J. D. Ward, Regimental Quartermaster. 

Sergeant John McLaren was promoted to Sergeant-Major vice 
Hudson, promoted. 

Sergeant A. R. Prescott was promoted Commissary Sergeant, 
vice Connett, promoted. 

THE SEVERE WEATHER AT OTTERVILLE. 

This winter at Camp Mildred, Otterville Cantonment, was very 
severe, and the men having no way to have fires in their quarters, 
which were the Wedge tents, they suffered extremely with the cold. 
Snow fell in large quantities, and the climate of Missouri, remarkable 
for its sudden changes at that season of the year, added nothing to 
their comfort. The measles still continued to be epidemic in the 
camp. 

The continual freezing and thawing, wet or damp feet, and 
want of comfortable quarters, contributed much to the sickness of 
iJte following spring and summer, the foundation for which was 
contracted at that place. 

Up to this time the men had been poorly armed and with guns 
of different caliber, but these were now replaced with the then new 
Springfield musket, and which now (1889) would be considered 
antiquated. On the 29th of January, 1862, Company I was relieved 
from duty at Sedalia, and rejoined the regiment. On the Yth of 
February Company F returned from Smith's saw-mill, having made 
there over two hundred thousand feet of lumber for Government 
use. February 5th Lieutenant Sumner was detached by order of 




CAPTAIN A. J. MERRITT. COMPANY K, ENGINEERS. 




LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES E. ADAMS. 



THE SEVERE WEATHER AT OTTERVILLE. 25 

General Pope as Ordnance Officer at Fort Lamine, and remained 
until February, 1803. 

Our men will all probably recollect what a curve there was in 
the embanked road comino; down ott' the Lamine bridofc, and what a 
lot of stumps there were below. Our excellent Ciiaplain, whom 
Adjutant Jacobson used irreverently to style "Captain of Cavalry 
Staples," (because his rank and pay was that of a Captain of Cavalry) 
one day saw^ a train of about a dozen six-mule teams come down the 
road on a run, and as they reached this turn all go off the bank pell 
mell together. He was terribly shocked when ho saw the " Coman- 
che" begin to whip his team, and worse than that when he heard 
him swear; but when he found the snarl begin to straighten out 
and at last the whole train get into perfect order by mere whipping- 
and swearing, he concluded that with mules whipping and swearing 
were the only remedy, and as such perfectly proper — "strictly 
medicinal." 

It so happened that nearly all of this Regiment were Republicans 
from the start, and it soon became known that as an organization it 
could be depended upon to help the colored race. Long before the 
Regiment went to West Missouri word had been sent in advance to 
reliable colored men that this Regiment could be depended upon, 
and they would be helped. In addition to the Colonel, Captain E, 
M. Hill and Lieutenant Edinger were particularly mentioned, but 
most of the important messages were to be confided only to "the 
Kunnel." This reputation preceded them down the Mobile & 
Ohio Railroad to the center of the State of Mississippi, and there 
was no time or place when reliable messengers could not be had, 
whose pace was twenty miles per night. The statements brouglit 
were always reliable, except as to numbers, then all was at fault ; 
" right smart of them " and " a big heap " covered the whole ground. 

The Regiment was often moved out by rail thirty, forty or fifty 
miles in advance of the main army, but never until the dusky mes- 
sengers had made their reports, and many a time when our men in 
Northern Mississippi were called silently at four in the morning to 
"stand to arms," no one but "the Kunnel" understanding what it 
meant. 

On the first trip South, wliile working down the railroad south 
of LaGrange, Tennessee, we were all the time watched b v a strong 
force of cavalry, hoping to find us unprepared and to pounce upon 
us, but they never dared come within reach. The soldiers did not 
understand why they were divided into squads of four comrades who 



26 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

were never to separate; that three were to work together while the 
fourth stood by the stacked guns ; nor why the orders were so 
strict that those on one car were to jump off to the right, the next 
to the left and instantly form. General Yan Dorn is said to have 
told Lieutenant Connet, after the latter was taken prisoner at Hol- 
ley Springs, that he never knew any force so thoroughly prepared 
for everything, and that he could never get his detached commands 
to attack us. We were never called upon to defend ourselves except 
once, that was back of Bayou Macon in Northern Louisiana, when 
six hundred rebs attacked about one hundred of our men and were 
thoroughly beaten off. We did not lose a man and we brought away 
the cotton and horses we went for. 

When we were ordered to Western Missouri to rebuild the 
Lamine bridge, the commanding officer at Jefferson City reported 
to the Department Commander at St. Louis that we were in a very 
dangerous position ; that we had crossed the Lamine Kiver and 
Avould have to fight with our baclvs to the river, that Price, although 
then besieging Lexington, had a force in our front large enough and 
ready to cut us up and that Colonel Bissell had refused to obey his 
orders to recross the Biver. The officer at Jefferson City, although 
a Department Commander, did not know that he had no right to 
give orders to any Engineer officer, and he was so informed. At the 
same time the General at St. Louis sent General J. C. Davis, then a 
Heutenant fresh from Fort Sumter and General McPherson, then 
a Captain of Engineers, to examine the situation and report. They 
were so far from condemning our Colonel that they agreed with 
him that the proper thing for us to do was to start out in light 
inarching order, with only coffee, salt and ammunition, to attack 
Price in the rear — six hundred to three thousand ! The Captains 
then at Lamine will now know for the first time why the}^ and 
their men were so thorouglily and carefully inspected in that 
Lamine breastworks. Three days would have taken us to the rear 
of Price, and the friendly negroes in crowds in front would be fleeing 
from six hundred Yankees. Murph v inskle Lexington would have 
made his sortie and there would have been no surrender of Lexing- 
ton. So confident was Davis that he remained as a volunteer, and 
McPherson hurried back to communicate with Murphy as best he 
could, by way of the north bank of the Missouri. General Sturgis 
actually appeared on the opposite shore with a small force, and the 
wonder has always been why he did not make any more demonstra- 
tion. But he did not hear our gun. Why? Because Sigel, then 



THE CONTRABANDS (SLAVES). 27 

a newly -fledged Major-General, appeared upon the scene the night 
before we were to have started and spoiled it all. Nothing could 
make him believe that we could succeed, and Davis went back to 
St. Louis in disgust. 

When General Pope came up to Otterville all was changed. 
He took advantage of the information furnished by our friends, and 
made his expedition, when he captured a large force at a recruiting 
station and caused his promotion. 

THE CONTRABANDS (SLAVES). 

Of course our officers had the pick of the country as cooks and 
waiters, and every company had its good cooks, so that our camp 
was the envy of the rest of the array there. 

When General Halleck took command at St. Louis this was 
changed ; his famous " General Order No. 2 " put a stop to all con- 
traband work. Officers were ordered to send all negroes out of 
their camps. Did we do it? Not a bit. In the first place. Captain 
Hill had a cave dug under his tent, over the mouth of which was his 
bed, on the ground ; then a strict guard was placed around our camp 
(which was separate from that of the rest of the army), with Lieu- 
tenant Edinger in command. Then, in consequence of the many 
spies hovering about the camp. Colonel Bissell was ordered, in case 
any civilians were found near his camp " under suspicious circum- 
stances," to have them arrested and sent, under guard, to headquar- 
ters as soon as convenient. As no one came around except to look 
for stray contrabands, they were there " under suspicious circum- 
stances," and were sent to the guard-house, to be escorted to head- 
quarters ; and somehow Lieutenant Edinger always kept them until 
the next day and often forgot their supper. Of course abundant 
apologies were offered ; but it was not considered a very pleasant 
job to come near our camp. 

One day Colonel Bissell was summoned to a consultation at 
General Pope's, and it was agreed that he would take the party pres- 
ent straight to the camp, and that if there was a negro there he 
would be put outside the lines. This was done, but not a sign of 
one could be found. The secret had been well kept, and Captain 
Hill recovered from his severe sickness as soon as the searching 
party had left. 

Then followed negotiations, through Mr. Wear, at his store in 
the village, until finally Captain Patten gave his notes at one, two 
and three years, for $500 each, and took a clean bill of sale of " one 



28 THE ENGINPJEE REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

man Jim*" lie was the only one who could be induced to become 
a slaveholder. 

When the orders came to break camp for the New Madrid cam- 
paign, the whole army was marched through the mud to St. Louis^ 
while our Regiment was left to forward the supplies and follow 
afterward by rail. It took us about ten days to send forward the 
last of the stores and get away. The Missourians boasted that " now 
they had us," and the Yankees would know what law was. 

At Jefferson City the Superintendent of the railroad came on 
board and said to our Colonel that as he was an old-time friend and 
as good an abolitionist, he would talk plain ; that these parties had 
come from Otterville and sued the road for sixteen negroes, which 
they knew were on board the train, and the damages were $1,500 
in each case, which, under the laws of Missouri, the road would have 
to pay. Of course the cars had to be searched. The soldiers were 
all in freight cars, and as a searcher was lifted up into the door on 
one side, somehow or other he did not stop, but landed on his head 
through the other door. McKissock, the Superintendent, enjoyed it 
thoroughly; but after the second car, the Missourians did not wish 
to try any more; it disgusted them. Still they would not dismiss 
their suits nor release the road. At last Colonel Bisselltook McKis- 
sock into a private room, and said that they would go up to General 
T. L. Price (not the rebel), then in command of the city, and get his 
military order that Colonel Bissell, of the Engineer Regiment, should 
take sixteen negroes, then on board the train, as prisoners, and 
deliver them as prisoners to the Provost-Marshal at St. Louis. 
This was done. Colonel Bissell gave his receipt for tJte yrisoners^ 
the Missourians dismissed their suits, and McKissock was happy. 
He said he was mighty glad to have his road out of the scrape, but 
he did not see how the Colonel was to maintain his abolition princi- 
ples, and it ended in a bet of a hat (which, the Colonel says, has 
never been paid) that the men would all be taken down the river. 

Some things needed attention at Jefferson City, and the Missou- 
rians took a passenger train, reaching St. Louis twenty-four hours 
in advance of the Regiment. When the Regiment reached the sta- 
tion at St. Louis the claimants were there with lots of their friends 
to see the fun. Lieutenant-Colonel Adams cleared the streets and 
marched the Regiment to the steamboat in a solid formation with 
the ^xy^i^Qw. prisoners in plain view in the center. On the way down, 
one poor darky became so frightened that he dodged out between 
the soldiers, when he was grabbed and was seen no more. The 



THE EXTRA DUTY MONEY. 29 

Others were taken safely on board the steamer Empress, and a 
strong guard was placed to see that no one passed the gang plank 
either way. 

As soon as the formation was made at the station the Colonel 
went to the office of the Provost-Marshal, showed him General 
Price's order, and said that he knew one of these negroes had been 
bought by Captain Patten, and that the operation in this case was 
to compel the Captain to ])ay his note, wiiich was not due for ten 
months yet; as to the rest he would say nothing, but he wanted an 
order that Colonel Bissell should summon a court of enquiry, to be 
held on board the steamer Empress to examine into the status of 
these fifteen prisoners, and that their report, if a])proved by the 
Provost-Marshal and General lialleck, should be binding and con- 
clusive u])on all parties. 

The court was duly summoned, as the records of the Pegiment 
will show. Captain Hill, .the President, read the bill of sale, no one 
disputed, although all present were called upon. Jim was declared 
to be the property of Captain Patten. 

In the other fourteen cases a bill of sale to some officer was 
produced, and as it was not disputed the like order was made and 
entered. 

The report was handsomely engrossed, duly tied with red tape, 
and presented to the Provost-Marshal. He endorsed the same as 
" approved," and took Colonel Bissell into the other office, where he 
introduced him to General Halleck. The General wrote " approved," 
and signed it, and complimented the Colonel upon his obedience to 
orders, and only wished all the other officers were as obedient. 

The boat was pushed out into the stream, before the howling 
crowd had a suspicion of any action. But before the gang plank 
Avas hauled in, Lieutenant Henion, asked permission to step off a 
moment and just once to knock down the son of a gun who claimed his 
cook and who stood there "jawing" about his treatment. The 
Lieutenant hit him once on the jaw and went off in a blaze of glory. 

THE EXTKA DUTY MONEY. 

Colonel Bissell made frequent ap]ilication to the Chief Quarter- 
master for the extra duty money without success, and the men 
becoming somewhat impatient with reference to it, Captain E. M. 
Hill was sent under orders to St. Louis, with letters of credit, 
to represent the importance and urge an early payment of the same. 



80 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

The Chief Quai'termaster at that time being nearly out of funds, 
Captain Hill met at first with a positive refusal, and many men of 
less enterprise would have failed in the mission, but having secured 
the influence of General CuUum, he succeeded in enlisting the 
interest of the Quartermaster, and on the 23d he telegraphed to 
Colonel Bissell that he had secured five thousand dollars. 

On the 24th of February Captain Hill arrived at Lamine with 
the money, and on the 25th it was distributed to the companies ^ro 

rata. 

While at Lamine much dissatisfaction existed among the men 
of the Engineer Eegiment, partly owing to the delay of the extra 
duty money, but mainly at the manner of their enlistments; the 
demands for their relief became so strong that the matter was 
referred to General Palmer; but whatever may be said of the 
merits or the demerits of the complaints made, the subject was 
dropped after a very brief investigation by that officer. On the 
28th of February the regiment mustered for pay, and having 
received orders, struck camp in the evening for the purpose of going 
to St. Louis, en route to join General Pope's command at I^ew 
Madrid. Transportation not being ready, it did not start until the 
next morning, the men resting on their knapsacks during the night 
without shelter. As the night of the 28th and the morning of March 
1st was cold the men suffered from the exposure. 

THE MAKCH TO NEW MADKID. 

On the morning of March 2d the Eegiment arrived at St. Louis 
and went from the railroad depot immediately on board the steamer 
Empress. The boat was not ready to start and some of the men, 
soured by the decision of General Palmer, and provoked by the 
closeness of the guard, became clamorous, and attempted to force 
the o-uard ; but the disturbance was soon quieted, and resulted in 
nothing more than the arrest of the offenders, who were shortly 
afterward released without charges. On the 4th of March the 
Eegiment started down the river, and landed at Commerce, Missouri, 
on the 5th, in the morning, where it disembarked, and under charge 
of Lieutenant-Colonel Adams marched across the country to New 
Madrid, making the march in three and a half days. This was 
their first extended march, and the night bivouac was a new experi- 
ence for the men. The weather in the meantime was extremely 
severe, especially the first two days of the march. Some of the 



NEW MADRID. 



31 



men found themselves fastened to the ground on awaking in the 
morning. Having to rest wherever they halted for the night with 
only a blanket around them, the warmth of the body would thaw 
the ground under them, which, ere morning, would freeze again fast 
to the earth and firmly secure the blankets and clothing. The sick 
and convalescent unable to march were left at Commerce. 

NEW MADKID. 

On the 8th of March the Kegiraent arrived in the rear of New 
Madrid and camped about thi-ee miles from the enemy's works, 
naming it Camp Cullum. New tents of the Sibly pattern, issued 




FIRST NIGHT IN CAMP ON THE MARCH, 



just before leaving St. Louis, were here used for the first time, and 
the camp presented a fine appearance ; some said the finest in the 
whole army. Companies A, B and G here joined the rest of their 
regimental comrades for the first time. They had left Cape Girar- 
deau under Major Hasie as the pioneer corps of General Pope's 
armv in his advance South on the 1st of March, and when the Reg-i- 
ment had arrived at New Madrid, Company A had advanced as far 
as the rear of Point Pleasant and commenced digging rifle pits and 
throwing up earthworks for batteries there, while Company B was 
making fascines and gabions. 

After arriving at New Madrid, Captain Flad acted upon the staff 
of General Pope as Engineer Officer, and an effort was made to 
retain him permanently in that position, but. Colonel Bissell object- 
ing, he returned to duty as Captain of Company B, on arrival of the 
Regiment at that place. 



32 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

March 1st Lieutenant Jones, of Company A, resigned ; Lieu- 
tenant Jesse D. Anderson, of Company B, resigned, on March 21st, 
and Captain Ilenion, Company E, the 26tli. March 1st Sergeant 
John A. Snider was appointed Drum Major. 

Captain J. H. Yreehmd had some time previous been placed in 
arrest, charged with embezzUng com))any rations and other offenses, 
and on the 18tli of December, 1861, tried by a general court martial, 
found g-uilty and sentenced to be cashiered and dismissed from the 
service. The finding was approved by the Department Commander 
March 11, 1862. 

Company G arrived on the 8th of March, having marched from 
Eird's Point, opposite Cairo, Illinois, where they had been employed 
in constructing defensive works for the Government during the 
winter. That same evening, just after arriving. Companies D, F 
and I were ordered to Sikestown to repair the railroad from that 
place to Bird's Point, for the transportation of army supplies and 
ordnance, which work was accomplished in a few days, though a 
storehouse and platform was also built. 

General Grant, at a visit to Cape Girardeau, in the fall of 1861, 
highly complimented Companies A and B for their proficiency and 
skill in the manual of arms, drill and soldierly appearance, and said 
that none in Colonel Rose's Seventeenth Illinois or Colonel Plum- 
mer's Eleventh Missouri were superior. Just after the two Com- 
panies halted in the rear of New Madrid an engagement was expected 
and every man was ordered into Ime, Morgan Morgan, cook for 
Company A, thought he would be exempted but had to go. He 
asked Comrade Feuerbach to load his gun, which he did amply. 
There was no engagement, but all were ordered to fire off their guns 
and clean them, Morgan's gun would not go off, so that he had to 
draw the load. In place of one he found three charges in his gun ! 
The next day, March 3d, the two companies marched to the rear of 
Point Pleasant; the enemy opened fire from their gunboats and two 
men of Company A were killed. A terrible storm of rain drove 
the men from their tents and the lightning killed several mules in 
the camp. A twenty-four jwund gun was placed opposite Tiptonville 
eio-ht miles below Point Pleasant, being dragged through by two 
reo'iments of infantry. 

This gun commanded the landing place of supplies for Island No. 
10, which by the river was thirty miles, but by land only seven miles 

distant. 

The Rebels were totally unaware of the gun being placed there, 
until about sunrise one of their gunboats came along, when there 



NEW MADRID. 33 

was ca puff of smoke from the shore, a boom ; a near shot took them 
by suprise ; the gunboat steamed down the river and returned in about 
an hour with two more ; all three opened fire, which they soon saw 
was not effective at long range. They moved closer, when our 
" boys," who lay on each side of the gun in sunken rifle pits, gave 
them a fire all along the line ; they stood it for about half an hour, 
when the boats blew their whistles and off they went, defeated by 
one smooth bore gun and a support of t\vd companies to three gun- 
boats. 

In a few days New Madritl was taken. Colonel Bissell, who had 
remained behind at St. Louis to transact some business for the Keg- 
iment arrived at Sikestown on the 9th of March, the same day the 
raih'oad was finished from there to 'New Madrid ; the road was very 
bad. General Pope, who had ordered some heavy siege guns from 
Cairo, directed the Colonel to go back for them the next morning, 
stating that he must have them quickly. Colonel Bissell detailed 
one hundred of his best men to repair the road to Sikestown and 
started himself early in the morning of March 10th. 

As usual, on arrival at Cairo, he found those at a distance from 
the front taking things easy and nothing done. At Bird's Point he 
arrived too late for the ferry that night ; could get no bed or supper 
until the next morning at Cairo. 

He got an order from General CuUum, putting all matters 
under his (Colonel Bissell's) orders, and in two hours he had three 
twenty-four pounders and one eight-inch howitzer across the river. 
He then ransacked tne magazines for four hundred rounds of ammu- 
nition, with his usual energy, so that he had everything at Bird's 
Point at 4 p. m. of the 11th ; on the cars at 6 p. m. ; started the 
train at 9 p. m., arriving at Sikestown at 2 a. m., of the 12th. 
Colonel Bissell here took possession of all the mules and horses 
belonging to the troops there, requiring in all one hundred teams 
for the guns, platforms, implements and ammunition. 

The hundred men that had repaired the road, and the railroad 
and bridge force of the Engineer Kegiment already there, made a 
force of two hundred and eighty men, who assisted the teams and 
guns through. And a hard job they had of it, one Lieutenant in 
charge of the barrels, revetments, etc., and Lieutenant J. C. Besier 
in charge of the ammunition. All arrived just in time to put the 
guns in position during the night of the 13th and morning of the 
14th, and we had to work upon the magazines continuously, until the 
night of the 14th of March— two days and two nights, without sleep 



34 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

or rest, and thirty-six hours without food ; men and officers did appre- 
ciate their rest the 15th. During the day of the 13th Colonel Bissell 
and Major Lathrop, Chief of Artillery, under orders from General 
Pope, started out to reconnoiter a position to phice the guns. Arriving 
at a brick house in front of an open field, in plain view from the fort, 
they were discovered in front of a window. A volley was poured 
into the house, and it is said the two struck it lively through an 
orchard in the rear of the house for tall timber in a cypress swamp 
just be3^ond. The writer knows how it is himself, for the next day 
he thought during a lull to go to the front, especially as it seemed 
the said brick liouse had been out of range some time. No one 
seemed to be around and he halted there for a few moments for 
observation, when, whether he was seen or no, the enemy's forts 
and gunboats seemed to open at once with all their artillery, with 
grape, cannister, shells, solid shot, round and rifled ; directed straight 
at the brick house. He, too, made good retrograde time through 
that orchard and " struck for tall timber.*' 

General Pope then sent two regiments of infantry, who drove in 
the Kebel grand guards about three hundred yards, and established our 
advance that much nearer and beyond where the position was selected 
for the redoubts. They were laid out in three sections, one of the 
heavy guns in each, with curtains connecting them, and a curtain on 
the flank of the right and one on the flank of the left redoubt, and 
a bomb-proof magazine for each. All Avas done by 4 a. m., and the 
enemy could not have suspected what was going on, as they could 
easily have driven the men away at anytime before 3 o'clock. The 
works were turned over to the Chief of Artillery at daylight. 
General Stanley was to assault to the right, and General Hamilton 
to the left, the rest to make points on the upper works. 

The assault was not made, as General Stanley said the Rebels 
had altogether too many guns, and the river was so high (it was even 
with the banks) their gunboats could take up any position they 
chose. He then moved the troops further back. 

The men of the Engineer Regiment were kept busy at the bat- 
teries keeping them in repair, with a man on watch to cry " down ! " 
whenever one of the enemy's guns were discharged, when the shovels 
would be again resumed. The guns were worked by a company of 
the Nineteenth United States Infantry, commanded by Captain 
George A. Williams. The only casualty at the batteries was from 
one of the enemy's solid shots striking the twenty -four-pound gun of 
the right battery, breaking the end off, causing the gun to swing 



THE NEW MADRID CANAL, SO CALLED. • 35 

round, killing two men and wounding six others. Three or four 
other men were killed in the woods and in the road, and about the 
same number wounded. 

Colonel Bissell said : " Of all the army, my Surgeons were the 
only ones that came out fully prepared. Man}^ regiments made no 
provision whatever, and the Surgeons of the Engineer Regiment did 
more than all the others." 

The first rifled heavy ordnance used during the war was in this 
engagement; the Rebels had one long two hundred-pound rifled gun 
on one of their gunboats, and used it frequentl}^ during the day. 

After 1 o'clock, Lieutenant-Colonel Adams took charge of the 
works. The firing was kept* up during the whole day, and our 
woi'ks were enlarged during the night, but in the morning the enemy 
started off double quick, the fort was abandoned, the guns spiked 
and the gunboats moved off down the riv^er. 

General Pope put the Engineer Regiment in possession of the 
abandoned forts, and our gunsmiths soon unspiked the guns and 
they were turned to face the other way. 

During the engagement Captain Tweeddale with a detail of 
men was started, b}^ order of General Pope, to Bird's Point for 
more guns, but was halted at Sikestown by a dispatch announcing 
the evacuation of ]!iew Madrid. The whole force was then set at 
work strengthening the j^lace against an attack by the enemy's gun- 
boats. 

The next problem was the reduction of the enem3^'s stronglv 
fortified position at Island No. 10, above New Madrid, and for this 
boats were needed to cross the Mississippi River and attackithem in 
the rear. 

THE NEW MADRID CANAL, SO CALLED. 

We now come to operations that were so original in their con- 
ception, so far-reaching in their results, and so successfull}^ carried 
out, that the credit of originating them has of late been claimed bv 
vai'ious persons — John Banvard, General Joseph A. Mower and 
others. We propose to show that the entire credit of the original 
idea belongs to Colonel Bissell alone, the details and their execution 
to Lieutenant-Colonel Tweeddale and the oflicers and men of the 
Missouri Engineer Regiment. These operations were the takino- 
of steam transports across the fields and through the woods, around 
the Rebel fortifications at Island No. 10, to Mew Madrid, by what 
has been called the New Madrid Canal. First we will briefly relate 



36 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

the outlines, from orders and documents written on the leading 
steamboat, the W. B. Terry, on the 31st of March, 18G2, and at New 
Madrid on the 11th of April, 1862, and which are still in existence. 

On the evening of March 17, 1SG2, General Pope directed 
Colonel Bissell to start for the gunboat fleet, and on the morning of 
the 18th gave him a letter to Commodore Foote, with full authority 
for operations, and asking for cooperation. There was no opening 
on account of the high water and overflow; so he took a dugout 
canoe, and, with a guide and another man, they pulled through — 
" runnino- the overflow " it is called — reaching Commodore Foote's at 
7 p. M., who called his captains in for consultation. The im- 
portance of furnishing General Pope means for crossing the river 
was laid before them and admitted, but they claimed their boats 
were not strong enough to withstand the forty-nine guns that they 
could count, besides those not visible. Colonel Bissell stated a plan 
for perfectly protectmg their sides and stern with bales of hay and 
cotton, and offered to prepare a boat and certify as Chief Engineer 
of the Army that it was invulnerable, but, with the exception of 
Captain Phelps, all voted against it. The Colonel then made a per- 
emptory demand, in the name of General Pope, that they send one 
boat, which was refused. Colonel Bissell then asked for some tugs 
to try and get through the bayous, and two were furnished. 

On the morning of the 19th an early start was made with the 
two tugs, and the shore explored for twelve miles, but no opening 
found with more than two feet of water, while the tugs drew six. 
In the afternoon the Tennessee shore was explored. No chance of 
getting in from above was found, but it was learned that the enemy 
had no communication with the main land, except by steamer from 
Tiptonville, and that our batteries now commanded that, and that 
they were now shut in completely. 

On Thursday, the 20th, as he landed at the foot of Island No. 
8, the thought occurred to Colonel Bissell that a passage might be 
found for small steamers drawing only two or three feet of water. 
He hunted all day, when he saw an opening into the woods, used as 
a farm road. His guide told him this might be enlarged to reach a 
bayou whose opening was near New Madrid. This seemed to be 
what he was hunting for, and he reported that evening to General 
Pope his plan. The General gave full orders, placing everything 
necessary to carry out the plan in Colonel BisselFs hands, and he 
started to Sikestown that evening with one hundred men. Captain 
Tweeddale and Lieutenants Wilcox and Randolph taking Company 



THE NEW MADRID CANAL, SO CALLED. 



37 



G, Lieutenant Werth, along from Bird's Point. Tiie details were 
eighteen men of Company C, under Sergeant Lape ; seven of Com- 
pany D, under Sergeant Barrow ; nine from Company E, under 
Sergeant Haskins ; tliirty from Company F ; thirty-seven from Com- 
pany H, under Sergeant Waller; twenty from Company I, under 
Sergeant West ; twenty -five from Company K, under Lieutenant 
Wilcox; Company G, under Lieutenant Werth — the whole under 
Captain Tweeddale. 

Frida}^ the 21st, spent in more fully exploring the route for the 
passage of the boats through the woods and bayous. 




Saturday, the 22d, in getting cutters, lumber and barges and 
landing all at the levee before dark. The barges were empty coal 
barges, about sixty feet long and twelve wide, drawing about one 
foot, the steamers thirty to thirty -six inches of water. 

Sunday morning, March 23, 1S62, one barge was got through, 
and the steamboat, R. B. Terry, drawing three feet, started, but the 
cut in the levee was not deep enough. The levee was cut at an old 
break a few rods farther up. There were so many stumps and logs 
that the steamer could not be got through, and was tied up for the 
night, right in the rush of w\ater above the break. The water of 
the river was fully two feet higher than below ; the rush was 
fearful, and it took two headlines and six breastlines to hold the 
steamboat. On Monday, the 24th, the first thing was to cut off 



38 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

about thirty feet more of the levee, to get rid of the stumps and 
logs, when by means of the lines the boat was let down gently into 
the cornfield, where the stumps about two feet below the top of the 
w^ater were so thick that it took all day to get a hundred yards 
from the levee, but two more barges had been got through the levee. 

Tuesday, the 25th, got through to the woods about three 
hundred yards in about an hour, and worked all day in cutting trees 
out of the route. The engraving will show how the saws were 
rigged to cut the trees off four feet under water. After getting 
fairly into the woods the progress of the machines of the Engineer 
Regiment was more rapid. General Pope sent five more steamers 
this day to be taken through, but the men seeing the importance of 
the movement worked with a w^ill and were proud of it and their 
share of the honors. Thus the work went on ; the first stage was 
the cut through the woods two miles ; the second Wilson's Bayou, 
about three miles, very narrow and crooked and overgrown with 
small trees and brush, but no large trees ; the third East Ba3'ou, 
about two miles, very deep, swift and straight; the fourth St. John's 
Bayou, partly crooked and partly straight, with considerable drift 
at the upper end. 

One morning the Assistant Secretary of War came on board 
and watched the operations some hours without any one knownng 
it until dinner time, when he introduced himself to Colonel Bissell, 
and stated that he had been in the " Canal " the day previous, and 
had telegraphed to the President that the project was to be a 
success, and that Island No. 10 would be taken withm a week. 

On the second Monday, March 31st, the W. B, Terry was half 
way through Wilson's Ba3^ou, with the expectation that in two days 
more the boats would be through. Unfortunately the river began 
to fall, and in the morning many stumps had to be cut off again 
that were too near the surface, though they had been cut off four 
feet under water the evening before, so that in place of getting 
through on the second day of April, it was Sunday afternoon, 
April 6, 1862, before they got up to near the mouth of the bayou, 
with the river in front and the way all clear, they were stopped 
here out of sight, that they might not be seen by the enemy on the 
opposite shore. 

The men took a rest that afternoon and evening. That night 
the gunboat Carondolet ran past the Island No. 10 batteries and 
reached New Madrid. 

Monday, the Tth, the men w^ere set to work preparing for the 
crossing of troops. They worked all day and night. About two 



THE NEW MADRID CANAL. 



39 



o'clock on the morning of the Sth the gunboat Pittsburg ran the 
batteries, having^ eio-litv shots fired at her. 

Under direction of Lieutenant Randolph, six barges had been 
arranged as gun barges, with mounted guns. Among them were 
one eiglit-inch Columbaid and three thirty-two pounders. After the 
arrival of the Carondaletand Pittsburg they were not needed, 

The enem}^ on the opposite side of the Mississippi, on the morn- 
ing of the Sth, were all drawn up in order of battle. They expected 
the gunboats that had run the batteries to clear out all their small 
works below the Island, which they did ; but that they would cut 
up in detail the small parties that could be landed by the gunboats. 
"When they saw the four transports loaded with troops round the 
point, word was given to get out of there as soon as they could, 
and they started, but being hemmed in nearly their whole force was 
captured. 




THE MISSOURI ENGINEER REGIMENT SAWING OFF TREES UNDER WATER FOR 
THE PASSAGE OF STEAMBOATS THROUGH THE WOODS. 

One of the difficulties encountered in the start was from the 
levee, which was about forty feet through of solid clay, and though 
the river was several feet higher than the banks, and the rush of 
water through was tremendous, it made little impression. 

A mishap occurred to Captain Tweeddale, who with seven men, 
on the night of the 23d, in a small boat were drawn into the rush- 
ing water, capsizing the boat, and in the darkness all hands came 
near drowning. 

Colonel Bissell relates the inception and the carrying through 
of the work as follows : 



40 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

COLONEL BISSELL'S NAERATIYE. ' 

October 21, 1888. — It gives me great pleasure to comply with the 
request of Dr. Neal to rewrite the account of the passage of the 
steamboats through the swamps of ISTew Madrid, thus avoiding the 
formidable batteries of Island No. 10, without reference to anything 
I have heretofore published. 

In such an operation the public only want to know what was 
done and how ; they take no interest in the fact that Sergeant 
Prescott never seemed to get tired, or that Devillo Grow was always 
the first to jump into the water if the saw was " pinched;" the 
man at the head gets all the credit, while these details, which a-re 
often the gist of the whole thing, pass almost or quite unnoticed. 

I declined several times to furnish anything for publication, and 
only consented after I had ascertained that another article had 
been written which did not give our Regiment due credit. 

With my old comrades and in a Regimental Book it is quite 
different. My great regret is that so many of the names of those 
good and true men have faded from my memory. 

The persons themselves all stand out before me, laboring with an 
earnestness of purpose and intelligence that was an augurv of success, 
but whether it was Haskins, a Bristow, a Lape or Waller that was 
doing a particular thing, I can not now recall, but they were all 
there. It seems to me that McLaren was efficient with the big guns 
on the barges and that I promised him that he should pull the first 
lanyard, and that Coy was alwa3's particular that his squad should 
have good coffee and plenty of it. 

While the plan was wholly mine, the entire credit for its execu- 
tion should be given to the Regiment. Captain Tweeddale had 
charge of the work of clearing the timber — I recollect distinctly 
his explaining to me about working the saws under water — he had 
done it hundreds of times in piling. At another time, when some 
one was up to his neck in the water trjang to relieve a pinched saw, 
a man on the raft suggested ]iulling at the stump with a tackle. 
This at once relieved the saw and enabled us to double our speed, 
as the tackle was alwavs rio-cred ahead of the saws. I think the 
man's name was Corjioral John II. Percy, of Compan}^ F. I wish I 
could remember; he certainly is entitled to great credit. 

Captain Randolph transformed the barges into floating batteries 
with great skill and celerity ; Lieutenant Werth was an able assist- 
ant. It seems to me that the genial Sergeant Armstrong was 
always around when hard woi'k was to be done. 




LIEUTENANT JOHN McLAREX. 




LIEUTENANT lOHN C. BESIEK. 



COLONEL BISSELl's NARRATIVE. 41 

We had full command of the Mississijipi River at New Madrid 
and for a few miles below, but could not communicate with Cairo 
by reason of the heavy batteries and strong force on Island No. 10, 
and the ridge of clay land on the left bank of the river extending 
down to Tiptonville, several miles below New Madrid. In the rear 
of this strong position of the Rebels was Reelfoot Lake and the 
overflow, extending from above their upper batteries to some dis- 
tance below Tiptonville. Commodore Foote held the river above 
with his gunboats and the Rebs could not embark at Tiptonville, 
because our heavy batteries kept all their fleet below and out of 
sight. Opposite our position was a fine large field and General Pope 
said if he were only there he could make the Rebs come and fight 
him ; but how to get there was the problem. 

The General stood with me upon the parapets of Fort Thomp- 
son and outlined his whole plan, and we agreed that with two gun- 
boats he could cross troops fast enough to carry it into effect. 
Neither of us doubted but that Commodore Foote would send the 
boats at once, and we were so confident that a set of signals was 
then and there arranged to be used as soon as the boats had passed 
the batteries above. He gave me a very strong letter to the Com- 
modore and a telegram just received from Washington urging a 
hearty cooperation. 

I readied the flag ship that evening about dark. The Commo- 
dore did not like to take the responsibility, but consented to call all 
his captains together that evening, which was done. After the plan 
was explained, the captains were unanimous in their opinion and 
vote that two boats should be sent. The Commodore was firm in 
his refusal to let any of them make the attempt, as he said the boats 
were fitted solely for fighting "head on," and that if either of them 
should be captured it could be started hard up stream and whip the 
whole fleet, lying as they did with their unarmored sterns down 
stream, and that Cairo would at once be at their mercy. The 
more I talked to him about protecting tlie boilers with bales of hay 
and havino: hot water nozzles to ward off anv boarders the more 
determined he was, and the fuller he expatiated upon the danger, 
until finally Captain Phelps said that if he were allowed to start he 
would stand in the powder magazine and blow the boat out of water 
rather than that it should fall into the enemy's hands. IIow well I 
recollect the horror-struck expression upon the Commodore's face 
as he turned to the Captain and said, " That would be inhuman ; 
this council is closed." 



42 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

The telegram from Washington was so strong that I felt 
authorized to make upon him a peremptory demand for the two 
boats. This was refused. I then said that all the General wanted 
was enough boats to get a few of his men across the river at a time 
and I would at once go to Cairo and run a couple of transports past 
the batteries. The Commodore said this would not be allowed ; that 
he was in command of the river and would not permit any boats 
thus to be carried to certain destruction. I at once jumped up and 
striking my hand upon the table said with considerable emphasis : 
" General Pope shall have his boats if I have to take them across 
the country," 

I spent the next day upon a tug exploring both banks of the 
river, the east to see if the enemy were entirely shut in by the over 
flow, which was found to be the case ; then went to ascertain if St. 
James Bayou, which empties into the river seven miles above Island 
ISTo. 8, in any way communicated with St. John's Bayou, which had 
its mouth at New Madrid. Here was found no possible way 
across. 

Here was a dilemma. I had used pretty strong language before 
the oiRcers of the fleet, and had not as yet found any way of making 
my words good, when the next morning, standing upon the levee 
while the guide was bailing out the canoe, I saw an opening in the 
woods back of the overflowed field, and the thought came over me 
that this was the way to take the transports through. This was an 
old wagon road extending half a mile back into the woods ; there it 
terminated. The guide said it was two miles from there to the 
nearest bayou, I took out my memorandum book and asked him 
to make a map of the route of this bayou from the nearest point to 
where we then were to New Madrid. This he did, showing a 
straight line through the timber of two miles. This we carefully 
explored and I said to myself, " the Engineer Regiment has talent 
enough to take a fleet of boats through those woods." The result 
proves that the old organization could be depended upon for 
anything. 

Upon reaching terra firma I went at once to General Pope's 
headquarters and reported the refusal of Commander Foote, Those 
of you who know the General's habit of speech can imagine the blue- 
ness of the atmosphere, " blankety-blank " does not begin to express 
it. The General and his staff had just about finished their supper? 
and as I was eating mine some one suggested something about a 
" canal," The General laughed about any " canal" when the whole 



COLONEL BISSELL's NARRATIVE. 43 

country was under water ten feet deep. I then took out my memo- 
randum book, and, showing the sketch to the General, told him the 
whole thing was provided for and that our Regiment would put him 
across the river in fourteen days. He at once called me into another 
room, where the whole plan was explained. I knew that he had 
graduated at the head of his class at West Point, and was distin- 
guished in the engineer service, and when he said the plan was good 
(" if the regiment could carry it out") he showed his faith in it by 
giving me unlimited orders on everybody under his command for 
everv thin^: that might be asked for. ' 

Captain Tweeddale, Lieutenant Tiandolph and I sat up most of 
the night arranging the details, including barges to be fitted with 
heavy artillery and used as gunboats, and the next morning they 
started with one hundred men for Cairo to meet me at Island No. 8, 
with all the material they could get in one day. Lieutenant-Colonel 
Adams sent a detachment each day therctlfter to Cairo to follow 
the first, until we had about six hundred men at the proposed start- 
ing point, with four stern-wheel steamboats, six large coal barges, 
onecolumbiad, three siege guns with carriages and ammunition, saws, 
and all sorts of tools and tackle in abundance and fully two million 
feet of lumber. 

Nearly opposite an old road was a break in the levee about 
thirty feet wide, this we enlarged about ten feet, and then started 
across the fields. The way here was clear enough as far as the road 
extended, then the work commenced. The steamer that had a 
geared steam capstan went ahead, the others were lashed in single 
file astern, then the barges and the procession started "to slo\^ 
music." Captain Tweeddale was the guiding spirit in front, while 
Lieutenant Randolph was building his gunboat fleet and performing 
his part equally well. About three hundred men were assigned to 
each, and all worked from daybreak until dark each day, rain or 
shine, with a zeal that knew no bounds. 

Small rafts were provided upon which were platforms, so that 
the trees could be cut oif about ei^ht feet above the surface of the 
water. The moment the tree fell another set of men were ready 
with boats and lines to haul it out of the Avay. This was done by a 
line from the steam capstan leading through a snatch block off to 
one side. This part of the raft w\as kept several hundred feet ahead 
of the leading steamer. It took about four sets of lines to prepare 
the way for the twelve saws which were kept at work on the rafts. 

When the space about the stump would admit a raft, this was 
lashed to the stump and the saw set to work. The sketch will show 



44 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

the manner of workino- better than any words. With the smaller 
stumps the saw was quicklj'' worked through, but when the base of 
the tree spread veiy much, as in the case with almost all the large 
trees in that swampy country, it required all the ingenuity of the 
force to overcome the obstacle, especially as it was about five feet 
below the surface and the water muddy. The saw would almost 
always run crooked, and "pinch." If it worked up we notched the 
top where the saw frame pivoted, and then set the top of the frame 
farther in ; if it run down, we had the tackle read}'' to spring the 
stump over away from the saw and relieve it. The great trouble 
was to ascertain just what was the matter with the saw. A man 
jumping into the water and feeling down could not always tell. If 
my recollection serves me, Sergeant Bristow was ordinarily the most 
correct in his judgment. We would sometimes be two or three 
hours upon a tough old elm, and in that time all the rest of the saws 
would have worked ahead several hundred feet. It took eight days 
to cut through the two miles to the bayou. 

We had so far called it hard Avork, but now it was worse ; the 
river w^as falling fast and the water running rapidly. The channel 
was very much obstructed with old fallen timber which had to be 
removed from the low^er side, with all our lines and machinerv on the 
upper side. Small pieces would be removed by men in a yawl, or by 
a line through a snatch block, but when we reached swamp oak, 
heavy and tough and deep. under water, it would test our tackle. 
They had to be raised to the surface and held there until they could 
be chopped up. Once it took eight lines from all four capstans to 
get one up; three and four lines to a log were almost always in use. 

In one place for about two miles every man who was not in a 
boat had a safety line tied around his waist, and more than one 
having slipped off a log, was indebted to that for his life. 

Not one was hurt or taken sick while in the swamp, but soon 
afterward, when the excitement was over, many found that they 
had laid the foundation for chills and rheumatism and were put 
into Dr. Shelton's small company. Wlien about half way through. 
Colonel Scott, the Assistant Secretary of War, came on board and 
said that he had been to the fleet the dav before with a yawl from 
one of the gunboats, and that he had sent a tug up to Cairo and 
telegraphed to President Lincoln that Island No. 10 would be taken 
within a week. 

While Captain Tweeddale was crowding the work in front 
Lieutenant Kandolph was doing his share well in the rear. The 



COLONEL bissell's nakrative, 45 

barges were heavy coal barges eighty to ninety feet long, with sides 
six inches thick, well built of good pine timber. Tiie plan had been 
to use three steamers in crossing the river. Each one to have a 
barge on each side and to keep one steamer as a reserve. The 
Columbiad and. the three siege guns were skillfull}' mounted upon 
pkatforms and places prepared to work ; several lield guns were to be 
taken on board at New Madrid. 

Six hundred of our men using one of the steamers with her 
two barges were to land at daybreak at the mouth of the slough 
below Fort Thompson and with their spades make a line of rifle pits 
as soon as possible. An equal number of picked men from the rest 
of the armv were to be with them to fight or dig-, as the exig-encies 
might require ; the other two sections of the flotilla were to be 
filled with good men and were to be landed above or below as 
deemed best. The reserve steamer to be read}' to assist either of 
the others in case of accident. 

As soon as the steamers reached the bayou and were on their 
way down I returned and reported progress to General Pope. Upon 
a careful re-examination of the ground from Fort Thompson with 
our glasses, we could see that the enemy had suspected something 
and were watching us carefully. The General had a battery of 
Parrot guns brought to the bank of the river and trained upon a 
house standing some hundred yards back from the river. The second 
discharge started the twenty or thirty oificers, each provided with 
a field glass, and they made good time to the timber in the rear. 
We ascertained that the ground in several places had been moved 
each night, but the marks were so skillfully covered with weed, etc. 
that one could not determine just what was done. If thev were 
ready with guns hidden just within the timber and these disturb- 
ances of the soil were rifle pits manned every night, they might cause 
us much trouble ; so it was concluded to make the leading boat a 
fighting boat that could not be disabled and then we could make a 
landing in spite of them. A large number of empty coal oil barrels 
were ordered by telegraph from St. Louis and Cairo, which were 
brought through our channel and reached the fleet in the bayou. 
They were placed two tiers deep all over the floor of two of the 
barges, the vacant spaces filled with dry rails and the whole well 
floored over so that dozens of holes in the barge would not destroy 
her buoyancy and no shot could go clear through and reach the 
steamer. The steamer was bulkheaded with timber about the eno-ine 
and boiler so as to fully protect those vital parts from anv damao-e. 



46 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

Careful cover was also prepared for a goodly number of sharp- 
shooters. 

This improvised gunboat would have covered the debarkation 
of our Regiment and protected us till we could have dug our rifle 
pits and been able to take care of ourselves; then- it would have 
been used for the other picked men. The whole were kept con- 
cealed in the bayou until all the details could be arranged and the 
several officers fully instructed just how to act. Late one morning 
General Pope handed me a roster of the officers he had selected for 
the expedition, and I had just fallen asleep when a messenger came 
in great haste, saying that a gunboat had run the gauntlet and we 
were to show lights for her landing and then have her hauled into 
the bavou for concealment. The latter could not be done. The 
Kebs the next morning saw her and began to prepare to dispute our 
crossing, which they knew was sure to follow. The next night the 
Pittsburgh successfully run the batteries and a splendid gunboat 
fight against the shore batteries was witnessed by us all. We know 
the results. 

Several of the captured officers told me that after the gunboats 
had run the batteries their whole force was withdrawn from about 
Island No 10. and placed in ambush to pick off the men as they 
landed from tlie gunboats, but when they saw our flotilla steam out 
from the bayou loaded down with men the}'' lost all disposition to 
ficrht. and each one looked out for himself. A few succeeded in get- 
tino- throuo-h the overflow, but most of them surrendered without 
conditions. 

As soon as the importance of this work appeared and w^as 
spoken of and praised by all in conversation, books and newspapers, 
both North and South, others began to claim the credit of origina- 
ting the plan. General Schuyler Hamilton claimed he suggested 
bringing transports through the overflow. John Banvard, an 
employee of the Topographical Engineers; General (tiien Ca])tain) 
Joseph A. Mower, whose claim is supported by Captain George A. 
Williams of the Nineteenth United States Infantry, whose Company 
handled the guns a few days before, in the action against New 
Madrid, also claim the first credit. But if any one of them thought 
of bringing transports through in that way, no one heard of it until 
after the Avork was accomplished. 

To show that no one at the time thought of giving credit to 
anybody except Colonel Bissell and his Engineer Regiment, the follow- 
ing orders and extracts from publications of the day are introduced. 



COLONEL BISSELl's NARRATIVE. 4Y 

General Pope in his report to the Government said : " Colonel 
Bissell having reported that a route could be formed for a channel 
suflBcient for small steamers, I immediately directed him to 
commence the Canal with his whole Regiment, and to call for any 
assistance for men or material necessary for the work. It was my 
purpose to make the Canal deep enough for gunboats, but this it 
was not found practicable to do within a reasonable period. The 
work done by Colonel Bissell and his Engineers was beyond measure 
difficult; the Canal is twelve miles long, six miles through very 
heavy timber, was made fifty feet wide by sawing off trees four and 
a half feet under water. Of Colonel Bissell and his Engineer Rem- 
ment, I can hardly say too much. Untiring and determined, no 
labor discouraged them, and no labor was too much for their energy. 
The}'^ have commenced and completed a work which will be memor- 
able in the histor}^ of war." 

The Chicago Times said : " The great feature of this memor- 
able siege, and the immediate cause of the glorious victory which 
followed, is the transportation of four steamers across the country 
to the aid of General Pope. Colonel Bissell announced that he was 
in readiness to attempt the task of taking them across the countrv. 
The task of clearing the trees out was one that would have discour- 
aged a sterner heart than Colonel Bissell's but for the enaineerino- 
experience and natural ingenuity which came to his aid." 

From " Leslie's History of the "War :" "General Pope, desirous 
of rendering every aid to Commodore Footers flotilla, sent Colonel 
Bissell to ascertain if it were practicable to establish batteries oppo- 
site the Island. Three days were spent in the swamps in canoes 
with negroes as guides,and the project was pronounced impracticable. 
Colonel Bissell, however, arrived at the conclusion that he could by 
hard labor get steam and flat boats through the woods and bayous 
beyond the Island. General Pope at once gave him carte hlanclie, 
and forth with he commenced a military canal around Island Ko. 10." 

The New York Herald published that '•' Thousands of trees 
had to be cut and dragged away in order to allow the upper works 
of the steamers to pass through ; stumps and floating wood without 
limit have had to be removed, and obstructions almost insurmount- 
able have been met and overcome, such as would have discouraged 
anyone but a Yankee of the Bissell school, or the untiring and 
unflinching Western bo^'s whom he commanded. The Colonel is 
justl}^ proud of his achievement, and his men share with him in self, 
congratulation." 



48 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

The Chicixgo Tribune correspondent wrote: " To the Eebels, 
this last was the unkindest cut of all. They felt sore that General 
Pope had outgeneraled them out of New Madrid, but the idea of 
bringing steamboats overland was too much ; yes, tlie cut of that 
canal was an unkind cut, and they broke and ran in disgust. One 
rebel officer said : ' We had heard about the canal, but did not 
believe it could be done.' The idea of cutting a canal large enough 
for irood-sized steamboats, and to saw four feet under water at least 
one thousand trees from six inches to three feet in diameter, besides 
removing innumerable snags for a distance of eight miles, is some- 
thing unequalled in any warfare. Napoleon drawing cannon over 
icy crags is not equal to it. Colonel Bissell, of the Engineer Kegi- 
ment, a man of most untiring energy, was the General's right-hand 
man in executing the enterprise. His men worked thirteen hours 
per day, while the Colonel himself could scarcely be said to sleep 
until he had astonished Rebeldom generally." 

Just after the surrender of the Rebels, Colonel Bissell said, and 
the remarks were embodied in a letter written at the time, that no 
suggestion whatever of anything was made to him by anyone ; that 
as he stood upon the levee opposite Island No. 8, looking at the 
water all around, the idea came to him like an inspiration ; as a flash 
the whole plan was developed in his mind, and was never changed ; 
that he called to Mr. La Forge, his pilot in the canoe, to get him 
back to New Madrid as fast as possible. Those of us who know of 
the twelve miles of water between the levee opposite Island No. 8 
and the New Madrid ridge, where the army was encamped, laugh 
.heartily of a canal. 

There was no canal, but a way was cleared through the woods 
to the bayous, which were in turn cleared of stumps, logs and drift. 
The idea never could have been carried out without just such men as 
the Missouri Engineer Regiment, and to them should be given the 
credit. 

THE NEW MADRID CANAL. 

To Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel) Tweeddale, who 
had charge of the details of the work, Colonel Bissell wrote the fol- 
lowing letter of acknowledgment : 

Sir: While I congratulate each of the officers of the Engineer Regiment 
that were engaged with me in constructing the canal across the peninsula about 
Island No. 10, upon the success of the undertaking, I desire especially to express 
my acknowledgments to you for the valuable assistance rendered by you, for the 



FOET PILLOW. 49 

unfaltering zeal and untiring industry shown by you, as the officer in charge of 
the work. I was surprised and gratified at the readiness with which you devised 
an expedient to evercome every obstacle. Trial showed these ex2)edients to be 
always successful. 

Respectfully your obedient servant, 

J. W. BiSSELL, 

Colonel Engineer Regiment, 
Captain Tweeddale, Engineer Regiment. 

During the clearing of this water route through the woods, 
Captain Bailey, with detachments from different companies, was 
engaged in putting the Cairo & Fulton Railroad in repair as far as 
Sikestown. Captain (afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel) E. M. Hill, 
was charged with the improvement of Fort Thompson and made it 
impregnable from attack by water. Company B was making fas- 
cines and gabions, while Company A, with detachments from other 
companies, remained at Point Pleasant and below, constructing bat- 
teries under Lieutenant-Colonel Adams. 

While here one man of Company A was accidently killed by 
the discharge of a gun. His comrades, while preparing to bury him, 
were fired upon, and an exploding shell set the hotel where he was 
killed on fire; when the fire was put out his body was found to be 
badly burned, but faithful to their comrade in arms, they took the 
remains to another building, where they found a beautifully lined 
coffin supposed to be the property of the Masonic fraternity. In 
this they deposited the body, wdiich was then taken to a covenient 
spot and buried with all the honors of war. 

FORT PILLOW, 

On the 12th of April the whole of the regiment, excepting Com 
panics A and I, went on board the steamer McDowell, and the men 
received their pay for the months of January and February before 
proceeding down the river, w^hich they did with the army of Gen- 
eral Pope on the 13th and disembarked in Arkansas opposite Fort 
Pillow, where they enjoyed the music and stings of the m\Tiads of 
musquitoes for one night. 

TO CORINTH. 

The next day the whole army re-embarked, going up the Mis- 
sissippi River and the Tennessee River to Hamburg, Tennessee, 
where they arrived April 22, 1862. 

As the successful operations of the Engineer Regiment had 
been published in all the papers, the passage up the Ohio River was 
a continual ovation, especially at the towns of Mound City and 



50 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

Metropolis. The streets were crowded with an enthusiastic people, 
who with cheers and the waving of thousands of handkerchiefs 
bade the Regiment " Godspeed." 

On this trip Colonel Bissell, who had already become well 
known for his summary method of treating matters, turned the Cap- 
tain, clerks, pilots, servants, and in fact every one except those of 
his own Regiment, out of the cabin, closed the bars, put his own 
servants in charge of the cooks galley and conducted his own mess, 
the oflBcers of the boat taking rooms and eating in the Texas. This 
treatment was owing to some impositions of the boat officers, but 
was Colonel Bissell's usual way of disposing of such cases. There 
w^as but one pilot, and Sergeant David Armstrong, who had experi- 
ence in that line, took his tui-n at the wheel half of the time on this 
trip. 

The work in the water taking the steamboats through the 
woods had been very fatiguing, and tlie men had been greatly 
exposed, Company G especially suffered, one or another of the men 
either had to get into the water up to their necks to adjust a saw^ 
taclvle, line or something, or fell in dozens of times a day. Probably 
one-half of the men engaged contracted rheumatism or chronic colds, 
laying the foundation of permanent disabilities. So also on the 
trip to Hamburg, taking eleven days, it rained almost continually, 
wnth nearly a thousand men crowded upon one boat, filling every 
nook and corner of it. Few could secure shelter, and by far the 
larger number had to brave the tempest and endure their wet cloth- 
ing, many sleeping in pools of water. April rains are cold in that 
latitude. The facilities for cooking were so poor that some could 
get but one meal a day. The suffering and sickness caused thereby 
will be remembered by all. The result of the exposure from these 
two sources was that by the time the men arrived at Hamburg 
about one-half were on the sick-list, and some da^^s it took until 
night for the Surgeons to get through the morning sick call. 

Companies A and I were deta.ched at New Madrid, by order of 
General Pope, to build a magazine and to make inventory of ord- 
nance stores; to remove the heavy guns from the detached batteries 
below to Fort Thompson, and from the main land above to Island 
No. 10, all of which they accomplished by the 4th, and rejoined 
the Regiment before Corinth on the 8th of May. 

The following changes and promotions were made during the 
months of April and May, 1862. April 12th, Lieutenant and Adju- 
tant Jacobson returned from recruiting service, and was on the 25tli 



TO COKINTH. 51 

appointed Ordnance Officer on General Pope's Staff, assuming the 
duties at once. 

Captain Dean, of Company I, resigned, and his resignation was 
accepted by General Falleck, to take effect on the 25th, and about 
the same time Lieutenant Dougherty, of Company A, Avho had been 
under arrest since the 27th of January, was dismissed the service. 

On the 29th of May, Lieutenant Thompson, of Company D, 
was detached and appointed Post Quartermaster, by order of 
General Pope. About the same time, the resignations of Chaplain 
C. A. Staples and Lieutenant Charles K. Hasie were tendered and 
accepted June 6th. 

Soon after arriving at Hamburg, Tennessee, it was discovered 
that the corps of Pope and Buell, were separated by a deep creek 
or bayou, and would in case of an attack be unable to communicate 
with each other. Companies D and F were detailed under Captain 
Hill to build a bridge, which was commenced about dark on the 
evening of the 23d of April, and finished about daylight the next 
morning, after an all-night's work. 

The next day, after arrival at Plamburg, Colonel Bissell asked a 
few of his officers if they did not wish to go out to the front and 
reconnoitre. Putting on old clothes and riding good horses, they, 
five of them, started for the picket lines on the Farmington road 
which were on a ridge crossing the road, one branch of the road 
leading to Shiloh Church, about a half mile off to the right in plain 
sight. The Sergeant with the party said the vidette was on the left 
about a quarter of a mile in advance, just over the ridge. So sure 
was he that there was no enemy near that they concluded to take 
their chance for a good look at the famous church. The Colonel 
-explained the lay of the country before starting, so that in case they 
became separated, they could make their way back to camp. Just 
as they reached the church a party of fully a hundred cavalry 
attacked the picket, firing a volley. Before the party could get 
behind the church they were discovered. The enemy started for 
them with a yell, fifty to five. The Colonel and his party started 
for the Owl Creek ford ; the Colonel with his roan thought he could 
keep ahead, but had to be second, as one of the others had a better 
horse. After a breakneck ride of two miles, not hearing pursuit, 
they halted, and now, being in old clothes, they had to be on their 
guard not to be fired on by Buell's pickets. 

They soon discovered the welcome blue uniforms. The Colonel 
dismounted, threw both hands up and advanced; the picket guard of 



52 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

about twenty all brought their guns to a ready; the Sergeant stepped 
in front with his pistol cocked and levelled; the Colonel marched up 
as though he was going to bite off the end of the Sergeant's pistol 
and did not stop until within about a foot of it. 

He afterwards said that pistol looked larger to him than a hun- 
dred pound Parrott gun. The Lieutenant coming up, the whole 
party was placed under guard and marched to General Buell. It 
was night when they reached camp, where the report was current 
that they had all been captured. 

On the 25tli of April the Regiment moved six miles inland, and 
from this time until the 30th of May was actively engaged with the 
left wing of the army in the siege of Corinth. 

But a slight conception of the amount of work performed can 
be entertained, except by a person who has passed over the road and 
witnessed the untiring industry of the men of this Regiment, who 
alone were relied upon to open the way for the army and make 
many of the entrenchments for the siege. The distance is cwenty- 
two miles, much of it over a swampy country. The recollection of 
that spring is that it was very rainy, rendering the roads, as they 
were, impassable for an army. 

To transport the siege trains and supplies the whole road had 
to be corduroyed and enlarged to a double track for the passage of 
long wagon trains in opposite directions; making nearly forty-four 
miles of corduroy road. This was done by cutting down young 
trees, splitting them in two ; using these puncheons as a road bed. 
Much of the way it was impracticable to work teams in the road 
building, and these heavy logs and poles were carried by the men 
to the place required. All the men were engaged upon this and 
work of the kind, and as each company was taxed to its utmost 
capacity, sustained equal credit in this campaign. Not only were 
the men worked during the day, but in the still hours of the night, 
while other soldiers were enjoying such rest as could be obtained on 
the field, considering the unsettled condition of affairs ; this regi- 
ment wasa ctually employed building bridges, or building roads, pre- 
paratory to the next day's advance by the army. As they neared the 
enemy's strongly intrenched position near Corinth, other duties arose. 

From Farmington the ground was strongly contested by the 
enemy, and the further advances were made at the cost of a series 
of skirmishes which might be magnified into so many battles. 

In addition, therefore, to keeping the roads in repair, batteries 
had to be constructed, and heavy guns placed in position. It was in 



TO CORINTH. 53 

the construction of one of these batteries on the 28th of May that the 
enemy opened a cross-fire and made a dash with a brigade of men 
upon the workmen under Lieutenant Randolph. This battery was 
being constructed on a high knoll and was armed with two thirty- 
pound Parrott guns, and from which point the church steeples in 
Corinth could be seen. The brigade that charged the battery was 
from Hardee's division; the guns were not yet in place and were 
consequently useless, and the dash was so sudden and unexpected 
that our men did not have time to retire or get out of the way of 
our own guns, two or three batteries of which were un limbered in 
the rear. The men, therefore, lay down fiat and let our men fire 
at the advancing enemy who came on with the Rebel yell (Ki! yi ! 

yiJ yi!) 

Richard Ryan, Orderly Sergeant, Company A, was killed. Pri- 
vate Carver, Company A, recieved a canister shot in his right foot 
and died from the effects about a w^eek later. Private Thomas E. 
Bivins, Company C, was w^ounded in his right leg near the knee 
joint and the leg was amputated above the knee by Surgeon Shelton. 
Sergeant Ryan was shot, seemingly by a shell, through the shoulder 
and left breast, tearing the w^hole left side of his chest open, one leg 
and arm broken, killing him outright. He was one of the brightes", 
byavest and noblest of the men of Company A. He was buried where 
he fell. Sergeant Young antl many of his comrades wept like 
-women as they buried him. One of liis comrades savs, thouo-h 
twenty-six years have elapsed, many times his form comes up before 
the memory with an effect to even now start the tears afresh, as 
the thoughts of his loving, kind and helpful nature is recalled. 
Sergeant James McClure was taken prisoner. One killed, two 
wounded and one prisoner were the casualties of the Engineer Regi- 
ment in this affair. 

The last battery finished by the Regiment during this siege of 
Corinth was a large one of thirty-pound Parrot guns by Companies 
C and H, under charge of Captain Patten, Lieutenants Odenbaugh 
and Besier. The order for its consti-uction was received and the 
work commenced late in the afternoon of the 27th of May, and 
before daylight the next morning the wdiole work was completed 
and the guns in position ; so rapidly and creditably was the work 
done that Generals Rosecrans and Smith on the following day 
extended a flattering compliment to the builders. 

An incident of the campaign illustrating the fertility of the 
resources of the Engineer Regiment was a remarkable observatory 



54 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

erected in a tall oak tree near Farmington, from the top of which a 
full view of the enemy at Corinth could be obtained ; the height of 
the tree was increased by a framework of tall poles on which was 
built a platform. 

Captain Hequambourg, of Company G, had on the 24th of 
April been assigned to the command of Compan^^ E. 

In a skirmish on the 3d of May, near Farmington, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Adams was captured by the enemy and did not rejoin the 
Regiment until I^ovember. 

On the morning of the 30th of May it Avas found that the enemy 
had evacuated Corinth, and the army was ordered in pursuit. The 
Engineer Regiment was the first to march in pursuit, except one regi- 
ment of cavalry, leaving tents, hospital and train behind, taking noth- 
ing that would impede rapid movement. About dark the Tuscumbia 
River was reached, at a point where the enemy had destroyed the 
bridge and had placed a batttery with infantry support to dispute the 
paWge. The Engineers, being in advance, were the first to receive 
their fire. Company A, under Captain Randolph (who was always 
hasty, inconsiderate and pushing), was marched right up to the 
burning bridge without reconnoitering or deploying skirmishers, and 
when within fifty feet of the bridge the Rebels opened with artil- 
lery and infantry. All who could, ran back ; but four of the Com- 
pany, among whom were Sergeant John Lewis and Corporal Whit- 
son, were killed ; two, Henry Feuerbach and Piatt Griffith, were 
taken prisoners. Feuerbach afterward escaped, and his adventures 
are given elsewhere. The result of this reception was that the 
whole Regiment was thrown on the defensive without support 
and were compelled to retire about two hundred yards, where 
they reformed and were deployed as skirmishers and advanced, forc- 
ing the enemy back to the river, where a battery Avas brought 
into position and Company B, under Captain Flad ; Company C, 
under Captain Patten ; part of Company 11, under Lieutenant 
Besier ; and Company I, under Captain Brackett, coming up, they 
Avere ordered to support the battery, Avhich they did. Darkness 
coming on, the Avhole command rested on their arms until morning. 
The next morning the enemy was still obstinate and the troops 
Avere unable to effect a crossing. An order Avas made to construct 
a bridge under their fire, and a portion of the day and the succeed- 
ing night Avas passed in getting out material to have everything 
ready to lay the bridge Avith as little delay as possible. 



COLONEL BISSELl's VEKSION OF THE TUSCUMBIA BRIDGE FIGHT. 55 

In the morning, everything being in readiness, the men moved 
with the material to the river, prepared to meet a shower of bullets; 
but, contrary to expectation, the enemy had withdrawn, and the 
bridofe was built without further hindrance. 

"While the whole Eegiment was obedient to orders and did its 
duty faithfully, the conduct of Company A, together with Company 
F, being more immediately engaged, was particularly creditable. 

It was near this bridge that Captain Merritt, while in charge 
of Company K as escort to the wagon train, was fired at by the 
Rebels in ambush, one of the bullets penetrating his canteen, and 
as the day was very hot and he felt the warm fluid trickling down 
his legs, he got off his horse to examine, though he felt no wound, 
when he found in place of his own blood it was from a wound in his 
canteen. Some of his teasing comrades started the story that he 
had fainted from the fancied loss of blood. 

Upon leaving Corinth the orders were very strict about strag- 
gling, foraging, or any appropriating of property by the men, and 
Colonel Bissell had told the men that on no account would they be 
permitted to leave the ranks or to help themselves to anything 
belonging to the inhabitants. It so happened that the day was very 
hot, the roads dusty and the men thirsty. The head of the column 
had been halted at a pump, each- man getting water as he passed; 
Sergeant Aaron Clark stepped to the side of the road and reached 
through a fence to pluck some blackberries. The Colonel observing 
him and thinking he was attempting to straggle, shouted to him to 
take his place in the ranks. Clark either did not hear the Colonel, 
or did not know that it was himself called to, and paid no heed. 
The Colonel without consideration raised his revolver and tired 
towards Clark, the bullet entering near the middle of his abdomen 
on one side, passed just beneath the skin and out on the other 
side, without wounding the bowels at all. A clear case of misun- 
derstanding on both sides, and the Colonel was certainly hasty. 
The Sergeant made a quick recovery, 

COLONEL BISSELL'S VERSION OF THE TUSCUMBIA 

BRIDGE FIGHT. 

Colonel Bissell, in his version of the Tuscumbia affair, says : 
"After the evacuation of Cornith our Regiment was sent to overtake 
the wagon train of the column that had taken that route ; one com- 
pany of Cavalry was added. Just at dark we reached the narrow 



56 THE ENGINEER KEGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

valle}^ through which the Tuscumbia runs, here a small stream. The 
cavalry were ordered not to go faster than the men on foot who 
swept the woods on each side, to keep the men out of any ambuscade. 
But tliey would push ahead, and when they reached within point 
blank range of the bridge, they were treated to a round of grape 
and canister that sent them back in a hurry. By this time a forma- 
tion could be made, the bridge was burned and the Rebels took to 
their heels. Several wounded men were taken to Dr. Knower and 
cared for. There was one whose head appeared so much mashed, 
and who seemed so verv dead that the Doctor thouo-ht he would eat 
his supper before attending to him ; but when the Doctor came back, 
the man was groaning feebly, showing that there was at least a little 
life left in him. Some water was heated and the Doctor carefully 
washed off brains and blood, washing from the neck upwards very 
careful!}^, and no wound, until at last the top of the man's head was 
reached and found to be perfectly sound ; it was the brains and 
blood of the man's horse that had been dashed into his face b}-- a 
cannon shot, and the only hurt was a bruise on the shoulder caused 
by the fall -with the horse." 

When the Regiment went from NeAV Madrid to Hamburg, 
Companies A and I were left behind. Concerning their duties, 
Captain Brackett says : 

'• The operations of General Pope's army soon resulted in the 
capture of Island ISlo. 10 ; after which our Regiment, with General 
Pope's whole command, was ordered up the Tennessee River to 
reinforce General Grant after the battle of Shiloah, Two compaines 
(A and B) were left under my command, with a steamboat, to gather 
up all the ordnance and ordnance stores for the purpose of fortifying 
the lower end of Island No 10. After this was accomplished, we 
proceeded up the river to joint the Regiment. When we reached 
Cairo, I landed and reported to the Post Commander for further 
orders. It Avas while here that Lieutenant Randolph, of Company A, 
came near beino- killed bv his men. Although a strono- o-uard was 
placed on the gangway of the boat, many of his men got ashore, some 
b}'' jumping into the river on the outside of the boat and swimming, 
and after becoming intoxicated, they returned to the boat as furious 
as wild beasts. I was at the Post Quartermaster's Office drawing 
clothing for the men when a messenger, in great haste from the 
boat, informed me that there was a meeting going on, and on hasten- 
ing to the boat, I was just in time to save Lieutenant Randolph from 
massacre. He had undertaken to tie some of them up, when they 



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CAPT. G. L. WERTH, CO. G, MO; ENGINEERS. 



CAPT. ALEX. G. HEQUAMBOURG. 




MAJ. M. S. HASIE, MISSOURI EN'GINEERS. 



DR. CHARLES KXOWER, 
Assistant Sirgkon Missouri Engineers. 



CORINTH TO JACKSON. 57 

became infuriated; they had got him down amidship and were on 
the point of bayoneting him. I quelled the riot as soon as possible, 
and after getting all on board we proceeded up the Ohio River ; but 
it took all of Company I to guard Company A that night; but by 
the time we joined the Regiment, Company A had sobered up, and 
Lieutenant Randolph again resumed his command, feeling thankful 
that he had escaped from what atone time appeared to be certain 
death from a bayonet charge by his own men. 

CORINTH TO JACKSON, AND THE OPERATIONS AT 
AND AROUND JACKSON, TENNESSEE. 

"When the bridge across the Tuscumbia was finished, the Regi- 
ment returned to Corinth, where the headquarters, hospital and 
corral had been located according to orders. The Regiment was 
then ordered to open the Mobile & Ohio Railroad to Columbus, with 
headquarters at Jackson, Tennessee. Company E remained behind 
at the ordinance magazine ; a part of the regiment halted at Purdy 
for about a week, quartered in vacant buildings. It did not take 
long to repair the railroad from Jackson to Corinth, whence the 
camp equipage waS sent by rail from Corinth. The headquarters 
arrived at Jackson about the 6th of June, 1S62. 

When the Regiment moved from Corinth to Jackson, Company 
E was left near Farmington in charge of the magazine and ord- 
nance stores. On the 6th of June Lieutenant Edinger left for St. 
Louis, Missouri, on a furlough, and Captain Hequambourg, of Com- 
pany G, was assigned to the command of Company E. The Com- 
panv remained at Farmington until June 23d, when the ordnance 
stores were moved to Corinth. 

At this time it was easy for citizens to enter Corinth to sell 
supplies, until one da}^ a man with a wagon, selling buttermilk, was 
found to have in the wagon a lot of United States muskets, bayo- 
nets, cartridge boxes and belts; and a few days later another citizen 
peddler was arrested with a lot of letters on his person. 

Owing to the carelessness of the Provost Guard the morals of 
Corinth became very low, until about the 13th of August Lieuten- 
ant Edinger arrested all the lewd women in the town and sent them 
to Cairo, when tranquillity was restored. 

Captain Hequambourg did not long remain in command of 
Company E, but resigned July 2d to accept promotion as Lieutenant- 
Colonel of Fortieth Missouri Infantry, and on June ISth Lieutenant 



58 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

"William Hill was placed in command of the Compan}^, with 
orders to take charge of the military work shops at Corinth, where 
he remained until October, creditably representing the mechanical 
skill of the Missouri Engineer Kegiment, constructing several large 
warehouses, an addition to the railroad depot, a turn table, a car 
shop, a number of platform cars and all the mechanical work which 
the interests of the place demanded. 

The detachment proved so useful that General McPherson, 
who was then Military Superintendent of Eailroads, complimented 
them and Lieutenant Hill with his favor and approbation. 

About September 16th two men of Company E were captured 
near Burnsville, a few miles east of Corinth. On the 30th of Sep- 
tember the Company was ordered to join the rest of the Regiment 
at Jackson, leaving a small detachment under Lieutenant Thomp- 
son at Corinth. 

On the 3d and 4th of October, 1862, occurred the second battle 
of Corinth. The small detail of Company E was all of the Engineer 
Regiment in that action. Lieutenant Charles R. Thompson, at a 
critical moment when the enemy had penetrated to the town and 
were forming on the streets, greatly distinguished himself by taking 
possession of a section of a battery that had been abandoned, and, 
with a few of our men, turning the gnns upon the line of the enemy 
that was forming, thereby causing them to scatter and soon after 
retreat and abandon the contest. 

For this gallant action Lieutenant Thompson was highly com- 
plimented by General Rosecrans, and soon after appointed Captain 
and Aide-de-Camp on his Staff, and a few months later Colonel of 
the Seventeenth United States Colored Troops. 

In the early part of July the " extra money " due the men was 
paid over to the company commanders pro rata, and by them trans- 
ferred to the men entitled thereto. 

On the 1st of July Quartermaster-Sefgeant Hudson was 
appointed Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant, Sergeant E. Win- 
egar was promoted to Lieutenant and Quartermaster; Sergeant- 
Major McLaren was promoted to Second Lieutenant, Compan\" A ; 
Lieutenant Jacobson to Captain, assigned to Company E ; Second 
Lieutenant Wilcox to First Lieutenant, Company I ; Sergeant J. P. 
Brooks to Commissary Sergeant; Sergeant Frank Bras to Sergeant- 
Major ; Sergeant John A. Points to Quartermaster-Sergeant ; Lieu- 
tenant Randolph to Captain, Company A; Second Lieutenant Will- 
iam Hill to First Lieutenant, Company A ; Private L. W. Coy to 



CORINTH TO JACKSON. 59 

Second Lieutenant, Company F ; Lieutenant L. Odenbaugh to Cap- 
tain, Company H ; Second Lieutenant J. C. Besier to First Lieutenant, 
Company H ; Sergeant D. G. Parker to Second Lieutenant, Company 
G ; Sergeant D. B. Sherwood to Second Lieutenant, Company I ; 
Second Lieutenant S. W. Mattis to First Lieutenant, Company C ; 
First Lieutenant G. L, Werth to Captain, Company G; Second Lieu- 
tenant John E. Murphy to First Lieutenant, Company B ; Sergeant 
Joshua Ricketts to Second Lieutenant, Company B ; First Lieuten- 
ant G. B. Brackett to Captain, Company I ; Sergeant A. D. Whit- 
comb to Second Lieutenant, Company C ; Second Lieutenant W. H. 
Connett to First Lieutenant, Company G. July 7th Sergeant J. P. 
Brooks was again promoted, from Commissary to Second Lieutenant 
of Company K, and Sergeant John F. Anderson appointed as Com- 
missary. The above promotions were all in the first week of July, 
1862. " 

The resignation of Lieutenant John D. Bowley was tendered on 
the 10th of July and accepted August 8th, to take effect from July 
14, 1862. 

While the Missouri Engineer Regiment was located at Jackson, 
Tennessee, nearly every branch of manual and mechanical labor 
demanded by the military service was carried on. One detach- 
ment of the men under Lieutenant Besier was engaged in clearing 
obstructions from the railroad track, which they did along the 
whole road from Corinth to Columbus, a distance of one hundred 
and forty-four miles. 

Captains Flad, Tw^eeddale, Patten and Bailey, assisted by a 
half score of lieutenants with large detachments of men, were 
actively employed constructing bridges and trestles over the many 
rivers and swamps with which that country abounds. The bridges 
over the Obion and Deer rivers constructed this season were 
extremely creditable to the builders. 

Lieutenant Sherwood had charge of a saw-mill at Jackson, which 
he operated with a detail from Company I, assisted by Lieutenant 
Mattis with a squad of negroes ; they manufactured a large amount 
of lumber for the Government. 

About thirty men were daily under Lieutenant McLaren con- 
structing an improved lattice bridge, which was framed at the 
machine shop in Jackson and taken on cars to the crossing of the 
Obion River and there put in place for the railroad bridge. This 
bridge was pronounced an ornament to the road and a lasting credit 
to the Regiment. Another detail under Lieutenant Cov was 



60 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

eno-affed erectino^ Government building's, while still another under 
Lieutenant Whitcomb was engaged in constructing cars, and built 
one of the finest passanger coaches in this country. This car was 
afterward transferred to the Memphis & Charleston road, and was 
only used on special occasions. The painting of this car would 
recommend Artificer Graves to a creditable place among the mem- 
bers of his craft. 

THE ISLAND KO. 10 WRECKING DETAIL. 

On the 21st of July Captain E. M. Hill, assisted by Lieutenant 
Parker, with a detail of sixty-five men from the various companies, 
was ordered on a wrecking expedition on the Mississippi River, 
among the boats, barges and floating batteries, sunk or destroyed by 
the Rebels in their surrender of Island No. 10 and New Madrid. 
This detachment reached Columbus, Kentucky, the same evening 
and embarked on board the steamer Crescent City about 11 o'clock 
p. M. Next day they went down the river to a small sand island 
opposite Point Pleasant, where the Rebel floating batter}' had 
drifted in April previous. It was cut loose by them on the day of 
the surrender of Island No. 10. hoping it would float past the 
Federal forces and thus be saved to them for future use. 

The water was high at the time and it passed nearly over the 
island and was caught upon the highest point; the falling river had 
left it high and dry and half buried in the sand. This battery was 
a formidable affair and mounted sixteen guns, some of them sixty- 
four pounders, and carried two large engines for propelling, which 
were protected by a bomb proof. It Avas not a difticult job to 
remove the guns, but in order to get at the machinery the bomb 
proof had to be torn away ; this was a work of patience and labor. 
It consisted of twenty-four inches of timber, covered by a thick iron 
plating, firmly secured by bolts. The men were engaged nearly 
three weeks at this work, which was anything but a pleasant experi- 
ence, as the burning heat of a July sun on a barren sandbar, ren- 
dered doubly tedious and oppressive by the heated sand, was soon 
felt, and its effects told in the increasing sickness of the men. At 
the same time myriads of mosquitoes held high carnival during the 
niffht and added to their discomfort. Onlv one small boat was left 
with which to communicate with the main land, and that was soon 
useless because of the low water. There was a short relief afforded 
in a trip down the river to Memphis on the Crescent City, with a 



COLONEL BTSSELl's RIVER PATROL. 61 

partial load of guns and ammunition from New Madrid, which were 
taken down for the defense of Memphis. This trip, although a relief 
from the sun and mosquitoes, was very fatiguing to the men in the 
working detail. The loading and unloading of heavy guns under a 
burning sun was by no means an enviable job ; nevertheless any 
employment or position almost was preferable to a barren sand- 
bar. 

On the way up the river on this occasion the boat was landed 
at Island No. 18, by order of Colonel Bissell, who was on board, for 
the purpose of breaking up a camp of the enemy said to be in that 
vicinity. No such camp was found, the squad sent out reporting 
the destruction of a quantity of salt, a ferry boat used by the enemy, 
and the capture of a number of horses and mules, only one of which 
was retained. 

On the 16th of August the detachment removed to Island No. 
10, where it was employed nearly two weeks removing guns and 
amunition from the Rebel batteries to the landing for shipment. 
Upon this island tiiey had the advantage of shelter and shade, but 
being covered with luxuriant vegetation it was unhealthy, and sick- 
ness increased. Dr. Knower who was on duty with the detachment 
had his hands full, but was equal to the emergency, and by his 
untiring labor won the confidence and esteem of all. 

After this work was finished the detail crossed the river to the 
Tennessee side, where it remained until about the 20th of October at 
work on the Avreck of the steamer John Simons, when it was taken 
on board the Belle Memphis and returned to ^Columbus, and the 
next day to Jackson, rejoining the Regiment after an absence of 
two months and a half. 

COLONEL BISSELL'S RIYER PATROL. 

While this detachment was at Island No. 10, Colonel Bissell 
fitted out another for the purpose of patroling the river, keeping 
down Guerrilla bands and making a chart of the Mississippi River 
and its tributaries. The charting of the river was assigned to Cap- 
tain Flad, while the Colonel himself, with a detail of a few selected 
men, undertook the patroling duty. 

For this purpose the steamer Emily was placed at his command 
and made several trips to Memphis, once extending the trip to near 
Helena. Captain Flad met the boat at Memphis on the second trip 
down and at once commenced the work of mapping. From Memphis 



62 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

the boat proceeded down the river, and when opposite Harke- 
rodes Landing, was fired into by a large party of Guerrillas, who 
were lying in ambush on the bank. Two men were killed and a 
third wounded. Instead of attempting to avoid them Colonel Bis- 
sell accepted the issue and immediately rounded to and landed the 
. boat. No sooner had the boat touched the shore than every man 
sprang to the beach, musket in hand, and charged up the embank- 
ment. The enemy, finding they had caught a Tartar, beat a hasty 
retreat and made good their escape, with the exception of one man, 
who was caught and immediately tried by " drum-head " court-mar- 
tial. He was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged immediately. 
While the gallows was being prepared, however. Captain Flad made 
a proposition to hear some additional testimony in the case, which 
was assented to, and some facts being revealed more favorable to 
the prisioner, his sentence was commuted to three years in the peni- 
tentiary. 

Search was then instituted among the numerous houses of 
wealthy planters in that locality, in one of which was found the 
muster roll of the whole party, disclosing the fact that nearly every 
man living in that section of the country was connected with this 
band engaged in outlawry. A letter was found, written that day, 
notifying certain members of the gang that a boat (doubtless mean- 
ing the Emily) was coming down, and to " hasten down and have 
some fun," but the laugh proved to be on the other side, as upon 
this disclosure a general bonfire ensued in which was consumed 
houses, stables, lumber,, cotton gins, in short everything of value, 
and ere the boat was ready to depart no shelter was left within a 
radius of five miles for assassins or bushwhackers. 

This, in connection with kindred transactions, soon rendered the 
boat a prominent object and the name of Bissell a terror to the 
Hebel sympathizers along the river. The story was at once put in 
circulation that the Emily crew had hung thirty men and sacked 
the whole country, and a general edict was published by the enraged 
Rebels declaring that na quarters would be granted to any one on 
board that boat in case of capture. Such threats had no terror to 
Colonel Bissell, who continued his operation until the chart was 
'Com})leted and he was warned that his time for operating on the 
river was up. 

Many other events worthy of note occurred. Sometimes the 
boat would land, under pretense of wooding up, or some other cause, 
and while there manage to have a number of men slip into the cane- 



TO JACKSON, TENNESSEE, AGAIN. G3 

brakes and secrete themselves, or to take ambush on some pubhc 
road leading to the landing. The boat would then shove off and be 
gone a number of hours. As soon as the boat would disapjjear, 
guerrillas, and often regular Confederate soldiers, supposing no one 
left behind, would resume their active operations, but only, in a 
number of cases, to find themselves picked up and made prisoners 
when they least expected it. On one occasion six were caught by 
this piece of strategy, by an equal number of our own men under 
Sergeant David Armstrong, who posted his squad in a high cane- 
brake on each side of the road. Among the squad was one Frazier, 
of Company A, generally known as Comanche, standing about six 
feet six inches, and proportionate in other respects. Sergeant Arm- 
strong was not much behind him in size, and it must be acknowl- 
edged that they were pretty heavy representatives of " Northern 
mud-sills," in every way qualified to command the respect of their 
opponents. A Rebel officer who was captured on that occasion stated 
that when Sergeant Armstrong arose from the brakes and demanded 
a surrender, the first impulse was to make his escape. In a moment 
Comanche was on his feet, towering above the canebrakes on the 
other side of the road. This was too much, and concludine: that the 
whole Yankee army was composed of giants, he at once surrendered, 
with his five companions in arms. Much property was also captured 
in this expedition, and turned over at Memphis. Colonel Bissell 
having completed his business, returned to Jackson. The map made 
by Captain Flad on that occasion was furnished to General Grant, 
and a copy was afterward solicited by General Sherman. 

Before Captain Hill's detatchment returned to the Regiment, 
and while yet at work on the John Simons, Lieutenant Besier, with 
another detachment of twenty-seven men from Company H, was 
ordered, September 29th, to Point Pleasant, to complete the work 
on the Rebel floating battery, which had been abandoned some time 
previously on an account of the low water ; having completed this 
business about the latter part of October they returned to the 
Regiment. 



"O' 



TO JACKSON. TENNESSEE, AGAIN. 

To return to the main body of the Regiment at Jackson, where 
matters of interest were transpiring. July 25th, four hundred of the 
Engineer Regiment were at work on a railroad bridge near Bolivar 
on the Mississippi Central, which had been burned by roving par- 



64 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

tisans of the enemy. Colonel Bissell arrested two citizens sus- 
pected of being engaged in burning the bridge. The report got 
out that the Colonel hung them to a bent of the bridge, but this 
was not true, he only threatened them and they were let loose after 
a scare. 

On the 28th of July a small bridge, two miles north of Carroll 
Station, on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, about ten miles north of 
Jackson, was burned by a force of Rebel cavalry, and a large detach- 
ment of the Engineer Regiment, under Colonel Bissell, hastened 
out to repair the damage. Upon inquiry, it was found tha^ J. D. 
Beadle, a citizen living near by, was strongly implicated in the 
affair, and was guilty of other offenses, as were explained in Colonel 
Bissell's own report to General Grant. 

The Colonel ordered a drum-head court-martial, consisting of 
Captains Tweeddale, Odenbough and Werth, to hear*and determine 
the case. In the meantime, considering the case a foregone con- 
clusion, he ordered Lieutenant "Wilcox to prepare a gallows, while 
the balance of the part}'^ were seeking information in regard to, and 
practicing on a hangman's knot, in the presence of the culprit. 
The court being somewhat tardy in its proceedings. Colonel Bissell 
relieved the members from further responsibility and sentenced the 
prisoner to be hung that evening at four o'clock ; whereupon, it was 
said, he detailed Captain Odenbough to administer spiritual consola- 
tion to the prisoner. Having finished this part of the proceedings, 
he sent out parties and burned Beadle's house, together with those 
of two of his relatives. From some cause, however, the execution 
did not take place, and his case was referred to a Military Commis- 
sion at Jackson, who, after hearing the case there, jointh^ entered 
an informal complaint against the act of burning, but failed to 
name the officers implicated. This complaint was forwarded to 
Major-General McClernand, through General Logan, and was soon 
returned by that officer, indorsed : " No action can be taken on 
account of the names of the parties not being furnished. The 
Commission will therefore furnish the names. By order of Major- 
General McClernand." 

To which the reply was returned that: "The houses and prop- 
erty were burned by and under orders of Colonel Bissell, Engineer 
Regiment, and his officers. Their names are not known. J. AY. 
Ilaynes, President of Court." 

With this additional information, the case Avas referred to Gen- 
eral Grant, indorsed: 



TO JACKSON, TENNESSEE, AGAIN. 65 

" Headquarters District of Jackson. 

"Jackson, Tenn., August 4, 1862. 

" Respectfully referred to Major-General U. S. Grant for his consideration: 

If Colonel Bissell ever invades my District again, and usurps authority which 

belongs to me, and not to him, he will be made to answer for it in a very 

■exemplary way. 

' ' John A . McClernand, 

"Major-General Cavalry." 

From General Grant it was returned to Colonel Bissell, direct- 
ing him to report through General McPherson and return the 
papers. 

Under date of August 8, 1862, Colonel Bissell reported in sub- 
stance that : About noon of July 28th a train bound north returned 
reporting that a train had been burned, and a large force of Rebels 
was in the vicinity, that lighting had occurred, etc. Colonel Bissell 
called in his details, put them under arms, and telegraphed to Gen- 
■eral McPherson, who directed him to report to General Logan, 
receiving verbal orders, to load his men, tools, etc., on the train, go 
with them personally to the spot and to take such action as deemed 
best, Captain Tressillian, A. D. C. to General McClernand, going 
a,lonff to o-ive advice and authority in case harsh measures were 
taken. At the bridge four men were found under arrest. An 
investigation was made proving that J. D. Beadles ran some two 
hundred yards to meet a party of Rebel cavalry, letting down his 
fence for them to pass to the bridge, and furnishing them with two 
axes. After the bridge was burned, they formed an ambush in the 
fields where the three houses and gin houses were burned. A troop 
of United States Cavalry was saved from this ambush by five 
negroes owned at these houses, but not soon enough to avoid receiv- 
ing the fire of the Rebels, whereby three men were wounded and 
four horses killed. 

Beadle, himself, and one Thomas Harris saw^ the United States 
Cavalry pass, and did not warn them of the ambush. In the gin 
house were found secreted three United States Cavalry sabres and one 
bayonet, and in the house a holster belonging to one of the United 
States Cavalry who was unhorsed, and a carbine belonging to 
another United States Cavalryman. After this investigation, the 
buildings were burned, with the full concurrence of Captain Tressil- 
lion, A. D. C. Colonel Bissell disclaimed anv wish — though he 
named Captain Tressillion — of throwing responsibility on him; he 
Avished to take the responsibility as the officer commanding the 
expedition. 



66 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

The Coloners report appears to have been satisfactory, as no 
further action was taken in the matter. 

August 10th, Captain Odenbaugh went home on recruiting ser- 
vice, and Captain Werth, on the same duty, on the 16th. Lieutenant 
Whitcomb was transferred from Company C to D. Lieutenant 
Bailey was detailed as roadmaster, and Lieutenant Brooks to Cornith 
to assist Leuitenant Wm, Hill. August 31st, the resignation of 
Major M. S. Hasie was accepted. 

About the first week in August, 1862, at Jackson, Tennessee, a 
notice was published that : " The regiment was to be changed 
under a new law from an extra duty Engineer Begiment to a regular 
Engineer Beffiment, and increased to twelve companies of one hun- 
dred and fifty men each, with ten Sergeants at thirty-four dollars per 
month ; ten Corporals at twenty dollars per month; sixty-four Artifi- 
cers at seventeen dollars per month ; sixty-four Brivates at thirteen 
dollars per month ; two Musicians at twelve dollars per month. 

"The Begiment has been in service since July 26, 1861, and in 
consequence of the men having no guard or picket duty the deatlis 
have to this time (August 1, 1862) been only about twenty, while 
the number on the sick list has generally been about one-fourth that 
of others in the same department. No men will be received as 
recruits under twenty-one years of age, nor less than five feet eight 
inches in height." 

This change caused a good deal of dissatisfaction among certam 
restless spirits among the men, and caused the Colonel and other 
officers a good deal of trouble for a time ; one of the agitators, Ser- 
geant J. y. Folsom, was arrested, tried by court-martial and sen- 
tenced to be dishonorably discharged. 

Under tliis law Brivates would get about $8, Artificers and Cor- 
porals $12 less and Sergeants $2 more per month, than under the 
extra duty allowance ; hence the discontent. 

During September, 1862, sixty-six recruits were received. A 
detail under Captain Bandolph and Lieutenant Wilcox was sent 
out on the Mississippi Bailroad, who built two large bridges near 
Bolivar, Tenn. 

THE SECOND BATTLE OF COBINTH. 

On the evening of October 3d, 1862, the whole available force 
of the Begiment was ordered to march to and reinforce the garrison 
at Corinth, as that place was threatened by the combined forces of 



THE SECOMD BATTLE OF CORINTH. 67 

Price and Yan Dorn. The Kegiment moved by rail that night as 
far as Bethel, where it halted for the night to await the arrival of 
other troops from Jackson. At daylight the next morning, the 
other forces having come up, the whole command, under General 
McPherson, moved on by rail about ten miles further and then 
marched by turnpike to Corinth, where it arrived a little before 
dark. 

The weather at that time was exceedingly hot, and the men 
had marched but a few miles when they commenced relieving them- 
selves of blankets, overcoats and everything burdensome, excepting 
their guns and accoutrements. The distance marched that day was 
about twenty miles, and many of the men, having new shoes, badly 
blistered their feet. 

They did not arrive, however, in time to participate in the 
engagement at Cormth, the Eebels having been repulsed and then in 
full retreat. 

The whole army was immediately ordered in pursuit. About 
one hundred of the Engineer Regiment, under Captain Tweeddale, 
accompanied it as a Pioneer Corps as far as Ripley, Mississippi, build- 
ing several temporary bridges on the route. While at Ripley, Lieu- 
tenant William Hill obtained a human skull, which was inscribed : 

" This poor Yankee was killed at the battle of Bull Run, July 
21, 1861." 

Lieutenant Hill kept this as a relic to show to his friends and 
sent it home. 

The rest of the Regiment, under Captain Flad, started the next 
day, October 5th, to return to Jackson, arriving there the 6th ; six 
miles north of Corinth they rebuilt a bridge destroyed by the 
enemy the day previous, and at the same point where they had con- 
s-tructed one a few months before. The night of the 5th they quar- 
tered at Bethel. 

The army having abandoned the pursuit, the detachment under 
Captain Tweeddale returned to Jackson, having marched on foot 
one hundred miles. 

About this time Colonel Bissell obtained orders and went to 
Washington on business connected with the Regiment. 

October 3d, Captain Tweeddale was promoted Major; 13th, Lieu- 
tenant Bailey to Captain, Compan}^ F; 15th, Lieutenant McLaren to 
First Lieutenant, Company A, and Sergeant-Major Bras to Second 
Lieutenant, Company B; 17th, Lieutenant Whitcomb promoted to 
First Lieutenant, Company D, and Sergeant J. S. Cunningham to 



68 ' THE ENGINEEK REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

Second Lieutenant, Company H; 18th, Sergeant Solomon Goodrich 
to Second Lieutenant, Company K; 20th, Second Lieutenant William 
Hill promoted to Captain, Company E; 26th, Sergeant K. G. Smith 
to Second Lieutenant, Company F. October 30th, Sergeant A. R. 
Prescott was appointed Sergeant-Major, the last to fill this office in 
the Regiment. 

October ITth, Captain Brackett and Lieutenant Bras were 
detailed on recruiting service, by order of General Grant ; the same 
date Captain Flad, Captain Bailey (who had been relieved as Road- 
master), and Captain Odenbaugh were detached with Companies B 
and II, to improve the fortifications at Corinth, which, under their 
labor, were soon declared impregnable. October 18th, Captain E. 
M. Hill, who had been sick since his return from the wrecking expedi- 
tion on the Mississippi River, was removed to Trenton with the view 
of recruiting his health. October 20th, Lieutenant Ricketts was 
detailed to the assistance of Captain William Hill at Corinth. The 
same date Lieutenant Sumner, who was absent in Missouri as 
Assistant Adjutant-General on the Staff of General Ben Loan, vras 
transferred to Company A. Lieutenant Brooks from K to D, Lieu- 
tenant Mattis to Company F, and Lieutenant Wilcox from Company 
ItoG. 

While the Engineer Regiment was encamped at and near Jack- 
son with the Regimental Headquarters and Hospital there, there was 
a good deal of sickness, caused by the variety of exposure and the 
unusuallv hot weather of the summer of 1862, Dvsenteries were 
frequent and a number of cases fatal ; there were a great many 
cases of remittent fever and some pernicious fever, typhoid fever, 
chronic diarrhea and rheumatism; inflammation of the eyes was 
epidemic, a special dark-room hospital was built that at one time 
contained thirty patients. One of the first victims to this epidemic 
inflammation of the eyes was Colonel Bissell himself, who was 
taken about the lOtli of June and could see but little for about 
two weeks. 

THE NEGROES AND THEIR EMPLOYMENT. 

The management of the contrabands gave some trouble at 
Jackson, the difficulty was solved by Colonel Bissell and Captain 
Brackett. Related b}'- Captain Brackett as follows : 

"A matter which, I think, is worthy of record in reference to 
employing slaves in arm}' operations. I believe I was among the 



THE NEGROES AND THEIR EMPLOYMENT. 69 

first, if not the first, to press them into service, and it was in this 
wise : After the taking of Corinth our Regiment had camped 
at Jackson, Tennessee, and was engaged in repairing the Mobile & 
Ohio Railroad, I was ordered to select a dozen men with tools 
and proceed with two hand cars to a stream one mile north of 
Trenton and build a bridge over it. When we reached there we 
found the bridge, a Howe truss had been burned and dropped into 
the river. I concluded at once that my force was not sufficient to 
do the work in time, and, instead of putting my men into the water 
to remove the wreck, I determined to press in help from the 
surrounding country, and so sent out a corporal's guard with 
instruction to notif}^ the citizens to send in their slaves with three 
days' rations. I thus obtained about forty good hands, who went 
at their work most cheerfully, and, when their day's work was 
done, they would have a grand social time, dancing and singing till 
midnight. It was a taste of liberty, such as they had never before 
enjoyed, and it was with sad faces that they returned to their old 
masters when the work was done. In the meantime, while they 
were removing the wreck, I found a lot of timber hewn out for the 
railroad company near by, which I caused to be hauled to the 
river by the citizens with ox teams, and which my men soon had in 
readiness and our bridge finished in just one week from the time 
we left camp, and a little sooner than a bridge back of us of same 
length had been built by a whole company of men, who commenced 
a week sooner than we did. This was all due to the help of our 
colored friends." 

" Soon after this Colonel Bissell obtained orders to press into the 
service the slaves whenever the emergency required, and, I think, it 
was due to what I had done in this case that another bar was 
added to my shoulder straps." 

After we had rebuilt the railroad from Corinth north and 
established our camp at Jackson, Tennessee, General Quinby, then 
in command at Columbus, the northern terminus, told our Colonel 
that he had great trouble with his laborers brought at great expense 
from St. Louis — that they would not half w^ork, and demanded exor- 
bitant wages. A remedy was soon devised. Our Colonel went to 
General Grant at Corinth and obtained an order to impress such 
persons as he thought best, to work upon the railroad or at either 
terminus and to keep a roll of all such and send a copy to the 
Quartermaster at Columbus. The next day a train load of willing 
darkies was started, followed soon by others, till General Quinby 



70 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

had supplanted his whole force of white laborers with colored, who 
were glad to work for their rations. 

General Logan was at that time in command of the Military 
District at Jackson, and, as he was fresh from Southern Illinois, he 
had not yet got his eyes open, and was still a believer in the " divine 
institution ;" at any rate he was in favor of letting it alone; while he 
could not override General Grant's order, he insisted upon controll- 
ing the manner of its execution, his wish being, practically, to nul- 
lify it. He onlv succeeded in one instance : Lieutenant Brackett 
stopped one day at the station in town with his train, when the 
General, who happened to be on the platform, had it unloaded and 
the darkies put outside the camp. Of course they at once found 
their way back to us at the round house, and the next day, as they 
moved slowly through town, a goodly number of soldiers were on 
the tops of the cars singing " John Brown." 

The General immediately sent an order for the Colonel to 
"report" to him. This the Colonel declined to do; then a staff 
officer came with a like " order," and said that the General would 
send down an armed force to enforce the order if this was not 
obeyed. A couple of hours later when a company came they found 
twice as man}^ ready to receive them, so they marched back. Gen- 
eral McClernand, who ranked General Logan, was appealed to by the 
latter and went to Corinth where he was told that he had better let 
the Engineer Regiment and its officer alone, and he did. 

The personal relations between our officers and those of Gen- 
eral Logan's staff were very friendly and this little episode did not 
cause any interruption. One day Captain Tressillion came in and 
said that we had a man Edward and a yoke of cattle from Mrs. 
Brown's place and that if we would send them back Mrs. Brown 
would give him a fine horse, then hid out in the woods. This was 
agreed to and Edward consented to take his cattle back, while the 
Captain was charged to get a receipt for so much cash paid for the 
horse. The next day the Captain paid us a visit on his new horse, 
a beauty, and he exhibited his receipt. Edward proved unfaithful 
and was at Avork the next week at our saw-mill with his cattle. 

Continued intercourse with those ])eople soon made General 
Logan a convert, and he afterwards told Colonel Bissell that by his 
zeal as an abolitionist he proposed to atone for his past errors. 

On the 1st of November the Secretary of "War, by a formal order, 
carried into effect the authority previously given, as contained in 
Colonel Bissell's card, and practically received the Regiment as a 



THE HOLLY SPRINGS CAMPAIGN. 71 

part of the Engineer arm. Each company was therefore authorized 
to have an additional First Lieutenant, and the Regiment being 
divided by the same authority into three battalions, created an in- 
crease of two Majors. The Staff officers, however, had to be taken 
from the line, and therefore Adjutant Hudson was assigned to Com- 
pany II, and Quartermaster Winegar to Company K, Novem- 
ber 1st, but still retained in their former positions as Staff officers. 
By the same order a portion of the Non-commissioned Staff was 
abolished, and therefore Sergeants Prescott and Snider were returned 
to their com]>anies, while Wm. H. Ward was appointed Quarter- 
master-Sergeant, and M. K. Webster Assistant Commissary- 
Sergeant, on the same date. 

THE HOLLY SPRINGS CAMPAIGN. 

On the evening of the 8th of November, the Engineer Regi- 
ment received marching orders to accompany General Grant's ex- 
pedition to Grenada, and the next morning the camp equipage was 
loaded upon the cars and everything put in motion; the greater part 
of Companies C and G having already preceded the Regiment to 
build some important bridges at Bolivar. Part of Company I, under 
Captain Brackett, was left to run the saw-mill and prepare material 
for bridge work, while the balance of that Company under Lieuten- 
ant Sherwood went with the Regiment. All the detachments at 
Cofinth had been relieved from duty there and rejoined their Com- 
panies at Grand Junction. The corral was ordered across the 
country by pike, and all the sick and convalescent turned over to 
the Post Hospital. 

When we arrived at Bolivar it was found tliat one of the bridfres 
was not finished. The train was lialted and Companies H, K, and 
a part of two others, took up the march and cam])ed in a grove that 
night ten miles further on, the balance remaining to complete the 
b rid ore. 

During the night the bridge was completed and in the morning 
the train started, stopping on the way to take up the advance com- 
panies, arriving at Grand Junction a little before daylight, going 
into camp about two miles south of town. 

The next day, November 10th, the Regiment, pursuant to orders, 
went to Moscow, Tennessee, to build a large bridge across Wolfe 
River near there and remained there until about the 14th, when 
orders were received to open the Mississippi Central Railroad south 



72 



THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 



from Grand Junction, Companies C, G and a part of D were left. 
A short halt was made near Grand Junction to build a small bridge, 
and on the 16th, Headquarters was moved to Davis Mill, Avhere three 
large bridges had been destroyed. On the 17th Colonel Bissell 
returned, accompanied by First Lieutenants Horace B. Hooker and 
James W. Hooker, and Second Lieutenant Josiah H. Bissell, who had 
been lately appointed to commissions in the Missouri Engineer Kegi- 
ment. Lieutenant H. B. Hooker was assigned to Company B, 
Lieutenant J. W. Hooker to Company I, and Lieutenant Bissell to 
Company C, and was detailed as Assistant Adjutant. Lieutenant- 
Colonel Adams rejoined the regiment at this place, after an absence 
of seven months as a prisoner of war. Colonel Adams only remained 
a day or two, being in poor health he tendered his resignation and 
pending its acceptance went to St. Louis and did not rejoin us. 
The three bridges at Davis Mill having been completed, Lieutenant 
Goodrich, with a detachment of men, was detailed to run the saw- 
mill, build tanks and other work, the balance of the regiment moved 
under orders to near Moscow again on the Memphis & Charleston 
liailroad, and commenced the re-construction of the road, about one 
and a half miles of which had been destroyed by General Sherman's 
forces, the summer previous. 

About this time the attempt was made to divide the Eegiment 
into two battalions ; the first under Major Tweeddale with Eegi- 
mental Headquarters, for which no additional Staff officers were 
appointed; the second consisting of Companies B, E, H and G, 
under Captain Flad, who appointed Lieutenant H. B. Hooker Adju- 
tant, and Lieutenant D. G. Parker Quartermaster. 

This organization, however, owing to the confusion caused by 
the details required in carrying on the duties of the Eegiment was 
shortly abandoned. 

On the 19th of December, Company E (except a detach- 
ment under Lieutenant Edinger), having been relieved from the Ordi- 
nance department, rejoined the Eegiment. Lieutenant Edinger had 
a short time before been appointed Ordnance Officer on General 
Schuyler Hamilton's Staff. About the same time Lieutenant Mur- 
phy returned with his detachment from the Obion Eiver, having com- 
pleted the bridge over that stream. After completing the railroad 
east of Moscow, which required the cutting and hewing of ties, 
transportation of iron and the rebuilding of the road entire, the 
men again Avent to the bridge over Wolfe Eiver ; it was partly com- 
pleted, when, on the 27th of November, we were ordered to resume 




LIEUTENANT D. G. PARKER. 




CAPTAIN JOHN E. MURPHV. 



THE HOLLY SPRINGS CAMPAIGN. 73 

operations on the Mississippi Central, and went on a construction 
train to a partially destroyed bridge at Hudsonville, about ten miles 
in advance of all other troops, the greatest caution was exercised to 
avoid ambush or surprise. For this purpose, after halting at Lamar 
for dinner, two companies were deployed as skirmishers, Company 
B under Captain Flad in advance to near Hudsonville. 

The advance of the Army did not bring relief for three days. 
On the 25th Companies H and G under Captain Odenbaugh and 
"Werth were ordered on a scouting expedition and returned with 
some captured contraband property. 

While at Moscow Company A under Captain Randolph was 
detailed for fitting up ponton trains, and Adjutant Hudson was sent 
to Bloomington, Illinois, on recruiting service. Henry Feuerbach, 
of Company A, who had been taken prisoner at Tuscumbia May 
30th, and escaped, making his way six hundred miles through the 
enemy's country, to the gunboat fleet, rejoined the Regiment at Mos- 
cow. His adventures written by himself are given elsewhere. 

November 12th, Second Lieutenant Ricketts was promoted 
First Lieutenant, Company C. On the 30th Companies H and G, 
Captain Werth and Lieutenant Besier, were ordered on a scout, and 
captured five prisoners of war, nineteen horses and mules, together 
with a large quantity of Quartermaster's supplies; the other com- 
panies doing the bridge work while they were absent. 

December 1st the whole camp was moved to the Cold water, 
where along and high trestle had to be constructed; there were 
many others, however, of less note at short intervals along the 
whole road, and the work of building them was assigned by com 
panics. Four companies, the same day, advanced beyond the Cold- 
water, to work assigned them, and Company B even entered the 
town of Holly Springs, taking up quarters in vacant buildings. 

December 3d, the bridge over the Coldwater having been com- 
pleted, the Regimental camp was removed to Holly Springs, from 
which place it again advanced on the 6th, the first battalion moving 
about five miles beyond, while the second proceeded to the Talle- 
hatchie River, a distance of about twent}'^ miles, over extremely rough 
roads, and arriving at that place at a late hour in the evening. 

At this point there was a bridge and trestle about half a mile 
in length, and which had been completel}' destroyed by the retreat- 
ing Rebels. Besides this, there were a great many others of 
less dimensions between it and where the first battalion was 
camped. 



74 THE ENGINEEE KEGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

The Regiment becoming short of rations, a foraging party was 
detailed nearly ev^erj^ day by each battalion, which proceeded ten or 
twelve miles into the country, and sometimes brought in prisoners, 
besides their forage and pi'ovisions. These excursions were fre- 
quently enlivened by amusing events, and the party often made the 
officers in command the butt of their jokes. On one occasion they 
reported him as having made a speech, dictating a code of orders, 
in which he told them there should be no " private pilfering except 
for the officers." 

The Regiment continued employed in this business until the 20th 
of December, when Holly Springs was captured by Yan Dorn's 
Rebel cavalry, the first battalion moving, in the meantime, twice — 
the last time locating about one mile south of Tallehatchie River, 
in an open field. The second battalion being encamped on the 
north side, and the Rebels having taken some Federal soldiers pris- 
oners within a few miles of the river, it was deemed prudent to 
move camp to within supporting distance of other troops, which 
were nearly all on the south side. The camp was therefore moved 
to the same field occupied by the first battalion. The Regiment, 
however, being badly exposed in case of an attack, moved next 
day to the bank of the river, where the Rebels, previous to their 
retreat, had made strong fortifications, and which were then in a 
good state of preservation. Lieutenant Edinger having previously 
removed his Ordnance stores to Holly Springs, they were, of course, 
captured by the enemy, together with his whole detachment of 
about twenty men, which had been detailed from the Regiment ; 
Captain Wm. Hill being then on temporary duty, and Lieutenant 
Connett, who was acting conductor of a construction train, 
were each captured. Doctor Shelton was also taken prisoner, but 
on learning his position in the army, he was released and returned 
to the Regiment the same evening. All the other prisoners were 
paroled on the spot, and were soon after forwarded to St. Louis 
by way of Memphis, to rendezvous there until exchanged. A full 
car load of tools designed for the Regiment were also captured 
and destroyed. 

On the 28th of November the Regiment was strung along the 
Mississippi Central Railroad for ten miles, building bridges and 
repairing the road ; December 1st, headquarters moved to Walls 
Station : December 5th, moved into Holly Springs. While unload- 
ing the cars there Jack Dodds, of Company F, in pulling his gun 
toward him, was shot throuo^h the head and instantlv killed. On 



MEMPHIS. 75 

the 6th the headquarters moved again, to Lumpkin's Mill, where 
there were eight raih-oad bridges to build within a mile or two. 

While at the work along liere quite a number of the men were 
badly injured by falling from bridges, timbers falling on them, and 
in a train accident; among others, Lieutenant-Colonel Tweeddale. 
December 15th, moved to the large Tallahatchee bridge, three-fourths 
of a mile long, where the most of the men were when Holly Springs 
was taken. On the 24th, moved into Holly Springs, except Com- 
pany G, left to keep the bridges in repair until the whole army had 
re-crossed ; 26th, Company G returned to Holly Springs in a severe 
rain storm. December 25th, Comj^any H was sent to Davis- Mill, 
and on the 28th the whole regiment started under orders for 
Lagrange, Tennesssee, stopping a short time at Davis' Mill. Decem- 
ber 29th the Eegiment, agreeable to orders, moved from Lagrange 
to Moscow again, and on the 31st completed the bridge over Wolfe 
Eiver near there. 

The Regiment then moved about five miles further west to 
rebuild two or three small bridges. While here rumors were cur- 
rent that the enemy were to attack, and everything was put in 
readiness to give him a proper reception by preparing a fort with 
cordwood and destroying all the pike road bridges. The enemy 
failed to make his appearance, and the command finished the 
bridges without disturbance. This was carried out and managed by 
Captain Flad, who was in command in the absence of Colonel Bissell 
at St. Louis, and Major Tweeddale, who was at Jackson, Tennessee, 
with Captain Merritt and Lieutenant Sherwood. January 2, 1863, 
the Eegiment moved by rail to Lafayette, where Colonel Bissell, 
who had arrived with a wagon train from Memphis, was met. 

MEMPHIS. 

January 3d, Companies D, H and K were ordered to Memphis, 
with instructions to repair the railroad as they went, which they 
did. Company G was ordered to Jackson, Tennessee, going the 
same evening and reporting to General Webster, Superintendent 
Military Railroads. On the 4th, Captain William Hill went home 
on recruiting service. Company E remained at Moscow until the 
24th, when it was ordered to Memphis. On the 5th the Regimental 
Headquarters were moved to Lagrange, escorted by Company F, 
and from there to Jackson, Tennessee, to the camping ground of the 
previous summer, the Regimental Hospital remaining at Lagrange 



76 TEE EN(}INEER KEGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

until the 17th, when it also was moved to Memphis. On the 5th 
Companies I and F were ordered to the Obion River, and were 
soon joined by Company F. Company A had been on duty at Jack- 
son with a part of Company I, who were running the sawmill there 
when the road was broken by the enemy, and were both ordered to 
the Obion River, to assist in the repairs, but the former was 
relieved soon after the arrival of the other companies, and proceeded 
to Jackson on the 12th, and from there to Memphis on the 17th, 
while the latter was rejoined by the rest of the Company at the 
Obion River, Company G, having reported to Colonel "Webster, 
was ordered to Carroll Station, about nine miles from Jackson, for 
the purpose of constructing block-houses, and proceeded thereon the 
4th, where it remained employed in that duty until the 25th, when 
it was ordered to Memphis and rejoined the regiment on the even- 
ing of that day, having been preceded by Regimental Headquar- 
ters. The four companies employed in the Obion Bottom, having 
been driven out by the sudden rise of water on the 15th, located 
their camp at Kenton, and remained there until the 27th, when the 
severe rain and snow storms having overflowed the bottom land, 
rendered further work impracticable, and the companies were 
ordered to rejoin their regiment at Memphis. During this storm, 
the most of which occurred on the 14th and 15th, the men suffered 
extremely with cold and exposure. Snow fell rapidly to the depth 
of eight or ten inches, followed by rain ; which, together with the 
melting snow, suddenly overflowed the only available camping 
ground in the Obion Bottom, and rendered it necessary for the four 
com[)anies to beat a hasty retreat to Kenton, as before mentioned, 
which they did on the night of the 15th. Arriving at midnight, 
they were compelled to occupy their snowy bed which everywhere 
covered the ground, and with no covering or shelter except the army 
blanket, in which they rolled themselves as best they might. Add 
to this the fact that the command was eighteen hours without food, 
and there is nothing in the situation to make it desirable or attract- 
ive. A great quantity of mechanical tools were said to have been 
lost in the bottom land by this overflow. 

On the 18th Colonel Bissell proceeded to St. Louis, on business, 
accompanied, or followed shortly after, by Major Tweeddale, 
Lieutenants Whitcomb, Mattis and Cunningham, under orders from 
General Grant. While at Kenton, on his way thither, the former 
telegraphed to Captain Werth to remove Company G to that place ; 
but the dispatch having been referred to General Webster, the 



THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN. Y7 

order was countermanded, and the Company continued on stock- 
ades until the 25th of January. Between the 20th and 25th the 
Reg'iment was paid up to the 31st of August, 1862. Companies D, 
H and K, during all this time, were employed in building side-tracks, 
€tc., at Memphis. 

On the 15th, seven and a half inches of snow fell in Memphis, 
and, on the 21st, a larger part of the Regiment and the Headquarters 
and Regimental Hospital having arrived, camp w^as made in the 
northeast part of the city ; going into tents in the snow without 
straw and boards, it was very disagreeable and caused much sickness. 

The 21st of January, at Moscow, a scouting party of Company 
E, who were out, had two of their men captured, Privates Joseph 
Soper, Jack Sanders, James Wilson, D. F. Smith and Finch escaping. 

While at Memphis the Regiment was employed taking up iron 
and, ties on the Memphis & Ohio Railroad, excepting such details as 
were necessary for camp guard*. Companies A and I were employed 
in repairing the pontoon train designed for use in the Mississippi 
expedition against Yicksburg. 

Lieutenant Wilcox had previously been detailed w^ith a detach- 
ment of men, and was emploj^ed at Point Pleasant removing siege 
guns to Memphis, which he accomplished, and rejoined the Regi- 
ment early in February. Lieutenant Besier was also absent at Cairo 
on special duty, by order of General Grant. 

THE YICKSBURG CAMPAIGN. 

On the 11th of February the Regiment embarked on board the 
steamer Crescent City, with the exception of Company C, which 
took passage on the Sam Young, and after receiving two additional 
months' pay, proceeded on the 12th, at 4 a. m., down the river, and 
arrived at Young's Point on the 14th day of the same month^^ On 
the way down the river, it having been ascertained that boats were 
frequently fired into at Bulah, and that a ])arty of guerrillas fre- 
quented and rendezv^oused at that town, Colonel Bissell determined 
to chastise them; and having a ten-pound Parrott gun on board, pre- 
pared to shell the place in case of any demonstration. On approach- 
ing the town, a suspicious gathering presented itself on the bank of 
the river, and satisfied that it w^ould be a difficult matter to injure 
an innocent party in that loccality, the gun was wheeled into posi- 
tion and opened fire on them. Of course there was a scattei'ing, 
and ere the boat reached the landing, no living inhabitant was to 



78 THE enginp:er eegiment of the west. 

be seen. Two companies were immediately landed and deployed as 
skirmishers, while the rest stood to arms and were held in readiness 
to support them. Those two companies had hardly passed out of 
sight ere a scattering musketry fire ensued, and Colonel Bissell 
ordered a third company to reinforce them. Soon after, however, 
the firing ceased, and the companies returned, reporting that they 
met with a band of about thirty guerrillas, but the latter escaping 
beyond a marshy strip of land difficult to cross, they had abandoned 
the pursuit. In the skirmish with them, however, one man, John 
Senthouse, of Company H, was wounded. There being no other 
means of affecting the offending parties, it was decided to reduce 
the town, and soon the rising smoke and flames added another to 
the many cautionary lessons the rebels had received from Colonel 
Bissell. Having captured and taken on board about twenty-five 
bales of cotton, the boat proceeded down the river. In the mean- 
time Company C had landed from the Sam Young near the lower 
end of Turkey Bend, with a view of flanking the force which it was 
expected would retreat from Bulah upon the landing of the other 
companies, but having skirmished some distance inland without 
meeting wnth the enemy, the company returned on board the boat 
and proceeded down the river. Arriving at Young's Point, opposite 
Vicksburg, the regiment was at once employed cutting a road 
through timber from army headquarters to the canal in course of 
construction across the point. 

This work occupied two days ; during one of w^hich it rained in 
torrents. The men, however, worked during the whole time, and 
while constructing one bridge leading to the river embankments, 
were compelled to stand to their waists in water. There not being 
sufficient ground outside the levee to admit of a camp, the regiment 
remained on board the boats. In the meantime, Colonel Bissell sub- 
mitted a plan for opening the contemplated canal across Young's 
Point, which, as it proposed abandoning the work already done 
there, was not adopted. Having completed this work all the 
Companies except F and I moved, under orders, to Lake Provi- 
dence, La., by the steamer Crescent City, under command of Col- 
onel Bissell ; Company C having been transferred from the 
steamer Sam Young to the former boats, while the latter received 
on board in exchange the two companies already mentioned, and 
which were left at Young's Point. 

The Pegiment arrived at Lake Providence early on the morning 
of the 30th, and Companies D and G, under Captain E. M. Hill, 



THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN. 79 

were immediately ordered to Baxter Bayou, distance eight miles, and 
proceeded there on foot the same day, making camp near the mouth 
of the bayou on a fiat piece of ground. There two companies were 
subjected to the most trying ordeal the two succeeding days, by 
rain, which fell in torrents and covered the entire ground upon 
Avhich the camp stood to the depth of several inches, leaving no place 
upon which one could stand dry-footed. The whole locality was also 
under a state of cultivation, leaving no turf, and the ground being 
saturated Avith water, there was no possible means of stepping with- 
out sinking knee-deep in the loam. 

In the meantime Company C, under Lieutenant Coy, made an 
expedition to Old liiver, but met with no incident worthy of note, 
and soon returned to the steamer. 

On the 25th the Regiment moved to Baxter's Bayou, and 
continued the work alreatly begun by Companies D and G, of 
clearing out that sluggish stream, the object being to open a com- 
munication through that channel to the Macon Bayou, and from 
there to the Mississippi River below Vicksburg through the Black 
and Red Rivers, On the 27th, Companies D and G moved camp 
a few miles further down the bayou, and on the 28th was mustered 
for pay by Colonel Bissell, 

On the 12th of February Lieutenants Brooks and McLaren were 
detailed and left at Memphis to apprehend deserters, and for other 
purposes; Lieutenants Mattis and Wilcox were also left thereon 
business connected with the Regiment. Charles C. Wood was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant, to rank from the 20th December, 
1862, and assigned to Company I. He was captured at Holly 
Spnngs, on his way to join his regiment, in consequence of which he 
was not entered upon the return of the Regiment until February, 
1863. 

While at Baxter's Bayou, a large quantity of cotton was dis- 
covered hid among the canebrakes, amounting to about 500 bales, 
and marked C, S. A. Of course, it was taken charge of as captured 
property, and Lieutenant Ricketts, with Company E, detailed to open 
a wagon road to it, and to guard the same until the infantry teams 
could haul it out. Colonel Bissell becoming satisfied that it would 
result in a useless attempt to effect a passage through Baxter's 
Bayou, expressed his convictions to General McPherson ; but that 
from a previous examination, he was confident that an attempt at 
Ashton to effect a passage would be more hopeful. At that point 
Bayou Macon took its rise, within a short distance of the Mississippi 



80 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

River, and by cutting the levee, would produce a fall of about seven 
feet, and a consequent inundation of the country to a sufficient 
depth to pass boats into the bayou. Having obtained an order for 
this work, he proceeded there with the Regiment on the 3d day of 
March, and commenced operations ; leaving, however. Company G 
at Baxter's Bayou to collect the regimental tools and to keep in 
repair the road leading to the cotton above mentioned. 

On the 5th the Regiment cut the levee at Ashton, and on the 
6tli the water had overflowed the banks of the bayous to such an 
extent that the troops were obliged to abandon the work on Bax- 
ter's Bayou and seek a place of encampment on the higher banks of 
Lake Providence. At Ashton there was little or no camping ground 
excepting the levee, and the Regiment was obliged to extend itself 
upon that narrow belt of terra firma in detached companies; the 
Crescent City, in the meantime, plying back and forth between 
them, and was placed fully at the disposal of the Regiment. ,_ 

Several breakages were made through the levee at this place, 
and ere the Regiment left, the openings through the same made more 
than a quarter of a mile in the aggregate, and had inundated over 
fifty thousand square miles of the finest agricultural country in the 
Rebel dominion. The manner of cutting the levee, Avhich was by a 
process of blasting, is also worthy of note. A small hole was dug 
perpendicularly into the levee to the depth of six or eight feet, or 
until the filtering water prevented a further progress ; this done, a 
keg contaming one hundred pounds of powder was thoroughly 
plastered over" with mud to prevent the powder gathering damp- 
ness from the water. It was then lowered to the bottom of the 
hole, having first connected with it a fuse-pipe made of cane, long 
enough to reach the top of the embankment, filled with fine powder, 
'and it connected with the keg so carefully made and protectetl with 
mud as to prevent the water reaching the powder through the vent. 
The hole was then filled up to the top, and the earth closely packed. 
A train of powder was then extended from the cane pipe, a distance 
of several rods, and the sudden rush of workmen to get beyond the 
reach of the convulsion was a signal that the train was about to be 
lighted. The eruption which followed the explosion of one hundred 
pounds of powder deeply buried in the earth can be easily imagined. 
A quick, distant, rumbling sound, and the next moment a sheet of 
fire and smoke leaped from the spot toward which all eyes were 
turned, shaking the ground like an earthquake, and sending missiles 
almost beyond tiie range of sight in the air. By this means a per- 



THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN. 81 

feet breech would be made in the embankment and pulverizing the 
earth for many yards around, causing it to yield easily before the 
action of the rushing water. 

On the 13th Company G returned to the town of Lake Provi- 
dence and embarked on board the Crescent City. The same day it 
proceeded to Ashton, and rejoined the Regiment in the evening. 

On the 15th of March the resignation of Lieutenant Smith, 
which had been previously tendered, was accepted. Also on this 
date the trial trip was made through the opening in the levee, and 
the steamer Sam Young successfulJy passed over the falls into 
Bayou Macon, as a proof that what a dozen or more regiments had 
failed to accomplish at Lake Providence by way of opening naviga- 
tion through Baxter's Bayou, this Regiment had successfully per- 
formed alone, and within a space of a few days, near Grand Lake, in 
securing a direct entrance from the Mississippi into Bayou Macon, 
and an uninterrupted communication to the Red River, which led 
again directly into the Mississippi. 

But owing probably to the great distance through the enemy's 
country before again reaching the Mississippi River, and hazardous 
undertaking of navigating those bayous and small rivers, the trial 
was never made. 

On the 17th the Regiment embarked on board the Crescent City, 
and toward evening proceeded down the river to Young's Point, 
leaving Companies A and C on board the Sam Young to get that 
boat back again into the Mississippi River. 

On the 21st the regiment again made a trip up the river to 
Grand Lake on the Crescent City. On the way one man fromCom- 
pan}^ G was accidentally lost overboard and drowned. Landing 
at Grand Lake, two companies were ordered to scout on that side of 
the river, while the boat crossed with the balance of the regiment 
to the Mississippi side and spent the remainder of the day, several 
companies going some distance in the country. Meeting with no 
enemy, however, nor making any discovery worthy of note, they 
returned to the boat and re-crossed the river, where the other two 
companies re-embarked, and the boat again proceeded to Young's 
Point. 

In the meantime companies H and I had been detailed, under 
Major Tweeddale, to work the dredging machine in the Young's 
Point canal, to which the}^ steadily applied themselves from the 
time the Reijiment first went to Lake Providence until on or about the 
16th of March, when theenemv having constructed abattervat the 



82 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

point nearly opposite, and which enfiladed the work, it was deemed 
advisable to withdraw out of range. 

March ICth Major Tweeddale was sent with Company F and 
one hundred and liity negroes to open Black Bayou, and pro- 
ceeded up Steel's Bayou to Muddy Bayou, where they were to take 
up a portion of General Stuart's command, who were crossing from 
Eagle's Bend, While there Colonel Bissell sent across companies 
D and H as a reinforcement. The expedition, however, having 
failed, the whole command returned ; the three companies under 
Major Tweeddale by the steamer Pocahontas, and arrived at Young's 
Point on the 27th, where they found the rest of the Regiment 
engaged constructing batteries in the levee opposite Vicksburg. 

While engaged in these various works, the additional amount 
of extra duty money was obtained and paid over to the companies 
jpro rata on the 24th, amounting to $24,167, making the sum of 
$64,167 received by the Regiment over and above its ordinary pay 
and allowances, and which completed the pay for extra services up 
to the 1st of November, 1862, at which date the extra pay was sus- 
pended b}'^ reason of the reorganization of the Regiment. 

The difficulties attending the payment of the last sum of money 
is worthy of note. 

A few weeks before leaving Jackson, the extra pay-rolls to that 
time were duly made up and certified to by General McPherson, as 
"late Superintendent of Military Railroads." Upon this, General 
Grant ordered the payment by Captain Button, Q. M., at Colum- 
bus, Ky. This officer, however, declined payment until the signa- 
ture of General McPherson could be changed by leaving out the 
"late." In the meantime the army was on the advance down the 
Mississippi Central Railroad, McPherson's corps taking the lead ; 
consequently, in order to make the change in the rolls. Lieutenant 
Winegar was obliged to make a trip on horseback (the railroad 
not being then open) to Oxford, to which General McPherson had 
advanced his headquarters. Upon returning, another obstacle pre- 
sented itself. An order had just been received by Captain Dutton 
from the War Department, suspending the payment of the money, 
for some cause unknown ; and thus matters rested until sometime 
in the early part of February, when a second order was received 
authorizing the payment of the money. 

Upon the arrival of the Regiment at Young's Point from Mem- 
phis, Colonel Bissell immediately obtained an order from General 
Grant, pursuant to an order from Washington, on Captain Dutton. 



THE VICKSBUKG CAMPAIGN. 83 

(who had in the meantime removed to Memphis) for the payment of 
the full amount due. The rolls were accordingly completed, and 
Lieutenant Winegar proceeded to Memphis the next day for the 
purpose of obtaining the same. In due time he returned with the 
funds which were paid to the companies as before mentioned, 

• To the benefits of " extra pay " may be added the fact that no 
regular sutler was ever tolerated in the Eegiment, and therefore the 
men were spared the impositions usually practiced by this leech of 
the soldier's pocket. 

On the 24th Colonel Bissell having conceived the idea of con- 
structing case-mated batteries by cutting into the levee opposite 
Vicksburg, obtained an order to proceed with the work. On the 
night of the 25th it was commenced, by taking all the material 
there under the cover of darkness and depositing it behind the 
embankment out of sight. 

The companies were then set at work by reliefs, and no man 
was permitted to speak above a whisper. Ere morning the whole 
command returned to camp to avoid attracting the attention of the 
enemy, where they remained until the succeeding night, and in 
that manner the work progressed without even attracting the sus- 
picion of the enemy until the morning of the 28th, when they were 
completed and ready to mount two 30-pounder Parrott guns. Be- 
fore mounting them, however, important changes were made in the 
army; and among others, Colonel Bissell, with six companies of the 
regiment, was ordered back to Memphis to open the Memphis & 
Charleston Railroad to Corinth. Before leaving for Memphis, how- 
ever, another trip was made by the Regiment to Ashton on the 
Crescent City, where it arrived on the 31st, and a detachment 
sent down the chute leading to the bayou some distance, where a 
large quantity of corn in sacks was found stored, and the same 
taken for Government use. In the meantime the balance of the 
Regiment occupied the day preparing boats and barges for an ex- 
pedition to Macon Hills. 

On the 1st of April, all things being in readiness, the whole 
command started on the contemplated expedition, supported b^^ two 
pieces of artillery, one a 12-pounder brass mountain howitzer, 
mounted on a gunboat barge, and the other a 10-pounder Parrott, 
mounted on a raft or scoav prepared for that purpose. Sergeant, 
afterward Lieutenant, Gast, with a portion of Company G, worked 
the former, while the latter was manned by volunteers from the 
other companies. The Regiment was transported there by means of 



84 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

a large coal barge temporarily decked over, and which was propelled 
to the place of destination by means of warping with a long rope, 
one end of which was taken out some distance ahead from time to 
time, with the aid of a boat's crew detailed for that purpose, as the 
occasion required, and hauled in again by them on board the 
barge. On approaching Macon Hills, the pickets of the enemy 
were discovered, and their busy movement gave rise to apprehen- 
siveness that the Rebels were there in some force. The two 
mounted guns were therefore brought into requisition, and the scatter- 
ing that was made on shore by a few well directed shots induced 
the belief that no severe opposition would be made to the landing 
of the troops. 

Lieutenant Coy, with Company C, instantly obeyed the call upon 
him to take the advance, and left the barge in an open boat for 
the shore, while yet some distance from it, and although the}' met 
with no opposition from the enemy, yet it must be confessed the 
attempt was a hazardous one ; and the handsome manner in which 
every man sprang to the shore aud instantly deployed in line of 
skirmishers, showed their apprehension of danger, and that they 
had prepared to meet it. The other companies landed in quick 
succession, and immediately made such dispositions as were neces- 
sary for defense in case of an attack. It was soon ascertained, 
that all the strength of the enemy in that locality consisted in a 
company of one hundred and twenty-five men, who were camped 
near the landing, but who fled at the first discharge of artillery 
They could, however, considering their position and the inconvenient 
approaches to the shore, have greatl} embarrassed the landing of 
the resriment had thev made the effort to do so. Having obtained 
a large amount of commissary supplies and taken on board thirty 
bales of cotton, the expedition returned in the evening to the Cres- 
cent City. 

On the 3d the Regiment proceeded down the river again, arriv- 
ino- at Young-'s Point on the morning of the 4th. On the 30th of 
March, official information was received of the ])romotion of Lieu- 
tenant Thompson to Captain, and Aid-de camp on the Staff of Gen- 
eral Rosecrans, which had been made by the President and con- 
firmed by the United States Senate on the Yth previous. Lieutenant 
Thompson, after having serv^ed as Post Quartermaster at Hamburg, 
Tennessee, which fact has already been mentioned, was appointed 
Ordnance Officer on General Rosecran's Staff at Corinth, and was 
serving in that capacity when the great battles of the 3d and 4th of 



THE VICKSBUKG CAMPAIGN. 85 

October, 1862, took place, in which he so far distinguished himself 
as to receive the favorable mention of his General in the report of 
that officer. On this date, also. Lieutenant Besier returned from 
Island No. 10, where he had spent much of the winter in removing 
Government property from that island. 

Captain Merritt, while the Regiment was at Memphis, became 
detached and was employed on railroad work under direction of 
General Webster. He was afterward appointed on General Mc- 
Pherson's Staff, and was finally mustered out of the service as a 
supernumerary officer upon the consolidation of the Eegiment with 
the TAventy-fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry. 

In consequence of the absence of Captain Merritt, Lieutenant 
Goodrich was placed in command of Company K, and continued in 
charge until July following. 

On the 14th of March Second Lieutenant Parker was promoted 
to First Lieutenant of Company C, to rank from the 17th of Feb- 
ruary, but was detached on duty in Company G, where he remained 
until October following. Sergeant A. P. Prescott was promoted to 
Second Lieutenant of Company F, to rank from the same date. 

On the 26th of March, J. G. Kappner was commissioned First 
Lieutenant in Company B, but was never with the Eegiment, and 
on the 29th of May resigned to accept a ColoneFs commission in a 
colored regiment. 

On the 4th of April, after having detailed Companies A, D, 
F and I under Major Tweeddale to remain with the army in front 
of Vicksburg and denominated the Second Battalion, the balance of 
the Regiment, under Colonel Bissell, moved from the Crescent City 
on board the steamer City of Alton, and proceeded up the river the 
same night. 

March 21st Lieutenant Ricketts resigned. On the way down 
the river to Young's Point February 13, 1863, while rounding to 
at Eagle Bend to report to General McClernand, one of the men fell 
overboard and was lost. On the 6th of March, while at work 
enlarging the break in the levee at Ashton, Louisiana, Adolphus 
Hall, of Company C, fell into the water and was swept away. On 
the 8th of March thirty-nine men of Company C came near being 
Avashed aAvay ; they were on a short strip of the levee, Avhich had 
been cut each side of them, and the Avater unexpectedly commenced 
to rapidly Avash both ends of the strip; they Avere finally rescued, 
when there Avas only just about enough of the levee left for them 
to stand on. 



86 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST 

At Grand Lake, after the cut in the levee had overflowed the corn 
fields, large numbers of buffalo fish, weighing from six to twenty- 
five pounds each, literally filled the water in the fields; tiie men in 
skiffs easily scooped up boat loads of them, until all were bountifully 
supplied. 

From about the 25th of March to the 1st of April, a detail of 
Company E, under Lieutenant-Colonel Flad was building a battery 
at the extreme apex of Young's Point, opposite Yicksburg. Owing 
to the continual fire from the guns in Vicksburg, the men had to 
work mostly at night, towing timbers and using iron from the old 
railroad terminating there; the battery was made by cutting through 
the levee, which was about thirty feet thick at the base and fifteen 
feet high; the earth removed was used in making the bomb proofs. 
It made a very good redoubt with little work as the clay silt of 
which the levee was made was very tenacious and about ten or 
twelve feet wide at the top. The 25th of March, about four o'clock 
in the morning, the gunboats Lancaster and Switzerland attempted 
to run past the Yicksburg batteries. The Switzerland got through 
with a hole in her boiler, but the Lancaster was sunk near the shore 
and near where Company E was making the casemated battery in 
the levee; two of their men were drowned and two badly scalded, 
one had a leg taken off with a shell after reaching the levee. Some 
company E men went out in boats and picked up the crew. 

During the operations in the neighborhood of Yicksburg, the 
headquarters and hospital of the Reginent remained on board the 
boat Crescent City, but April 3d, before going up the river, was 
moved to the City of Alton. 

YOUNG'S POINT TO POCAHONTAS. 

On the 6th those companies now denominated the First Battal- 
ion arrived in Memphis about 2 o'clock p. m., and proceeded with 
camp and garrison equipage the same evening to the Memphis & 
Charleston Railroad. April 7th, took the train at 1 o'clock p. m., 
and proceeded to Grand Junction, where it arrived about T o'clock. 

Lieutenant Prescott was temporarily detailed in charge of Com- 
pany E, he having been detached from Company F, near Yicksburg, 
for that purpose. 

April 8th the battalion made camp about one mile from Grand 
Junction, and a party sent east on the railroad to reconnoitre, who 
returned in the evening and reported that road in good condition 



young's point to POCAHONTAS. 87 

fifteen miles; also a few men accidentally left in Memphis on the 
17th rejoined the Regiment. 

April 9th, battalion took a train and proceeded to the Mobile 
& Ohio Railroad after timber ; arrived at Jackson and halted for 
dinner; after which the battalion proceeded to Ilmiiboldt and 
stopped for the night. April 10th, moved on to Dyer's Station and 
loaded two trains with timber, which proceeded back, leaving Com- 
panies C and G to make a scout to Dyersville. At the first tank 
station north of Trenton Companies E and K were left with instruc- 
tions to do what scouting they could until the train returned. 

April 11th one train was again loaded near D^^er's Station, and 
taking on the companies which had been left the day previous, pro- 
ceeded to Trenton, where a part of the command quartered in 
vacant houses for the night, having become thoroughly wet with 
rain which fell that afternoon ; the rest of the command returning 
to Jackson with the train. 

April 12th, at 10 a. m., the train again arrived at Trenton and 
loaded with bridge timbers, and took on board those left there the 
evening previous; then proceeded to Jackson, stopping several times 
on the way for bridge timber and ties, and arrived at Jackson 
about 7 o'clock p. m. 

April 13th the battalion again started north on the cars, and 
was immediately followed by another train to load with timber, stop- 
ping at tank north of Trenton for dinner; the battalion proceeded 
on that evening as far as the Obion Bottom, where the road was 
found to be somewhat damaged, and stopped for the night, during 
which it rained hard, and nearly the whole command got wet. 
Next morning, having repaired the track, the train proceeded on to 
Union Cit}'^, where the battalion quartered in vacant buildings; the 
Colonel, with a small escort of men, proceeding through to Colum- 
bus, but returned that evening. It was upon this trip that some 
complaint being made to the Colonel relative to the men obtaining 
hams from the neig'hborinfj' smoke-houses, he declared there must be 
some mistake about it, as his men " never eat hams." 

April 1.5th battalion started early in the morning back to Jack- 
son, where it arrived about 5 o'clock p. m., and met Lieutenant- 
Colonel Adams, who, however, did not rejoin the command for 
duty. 

April IGth the Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel started for Mem- 
phis, after having ordered the comnumd to proceed north again for 
timber ; shortly after, however, Company C^was ordered to Grand 



88 THE ENGINEER REGIMP:NT OF THE WEST. 

Junction, the rest of the command fulfilhngthe previous order, going 
to Dyer Station. 

April 17th Lieutenant "Wilcox, with a detachment of men, 
accompanied General Smith to the Coklwater as a pioneer party, 
who returned the next day, as also that portion who were collecting- 
timber on the Mobile and Ohio road. 

April 20th the battalion was paid for four months, and Major 
Flad returned from St. Louis ; Company H ordered out on a 
scout; while Companies B and C went to Porter's Creek on a 
reconnoissance. 

April 23d Colonel Bissell went to Memphis, and returned again 
on the 26th. 

April 25th a detachment of Company LI went out on a 
scout mounted. During tlie day a dispatch was received from Col- 
dnel Bissell directing a guard to be furnished the train when it 
arrived at Jackson, and Lieutenant Parker, with a detail from Com- 
pany 11, was sent, who returned the next day. There being 
rumors of a force of the enemy near, in the evening Major Flad 
deemed it prudent to move camp nearer to the fort, which he did. 

April 26th Lieutenant Coy, who had obtained leave of absence 
on the 10th, returned. Compau}'- H was ordered to Saulsbury, 
with instructions to strongly picket the place, and to hold in duress 
all the inhabitants untill the battalion arrived. 

April 27tli the command moved by railroad to Saulsbury, 
repaired the road near that place, and remained all night, quarter- 
ing on the train and in vacant houses. • While here several hogs- 
heads of sugar were taken possession of for Government use. 

At this point Colonel Bissell called a meeting of the citizens, at 
which he informed them that they would be held responsible for any 
mischief done to the road by guerrillas, and that although they 
were at liberty to fight the battalion, or any portion of it, at any 
time they thought it safe to do so, yet any disturbance of the rail- 
road or telegraph would be met by retaliation upon the property of 
citizens down to the tenth degree of relationship. 

The roving partisans between Corinth and Grand Junction at 
this time gave a great deal of trouble in opening u]) and keeping 
open the railroad. Eighty of the men were mounted and kept 
scouring around the country, managing to keep these guerrillas at a 
distance and in fear of the Engineer Regiment. The telegraph was 
kept open from Jackson to Columbus, Ky., without the aid of infantry, 
as the Generals at Memphis did not think ii safe to reduce their force. 



THE NIGHT HAWKS. 89 

Colonel Bissell called the men at each town together, and told 
them the road and telegraph should he kept intact witliout a guard, 
and, if either were touched, he would burn every building within 
five miles of the road on either side, that, the second time, he 
would add five miles more. The result of this threat was that 
eighty-seven miles of road was secure without a soldier; the one 
hundred miles between Jackson and Memphis, guarded by 10,000 
soldiers, was cut nearly every day. 

General Hurlbut did not believe the road could be kept clear 
on Colonel Bissell's plan, but gave him absolute control outside of 
his own line. The Colonel fined and imprisoned the citizens as he 
thought best for the object in view, and the people found that his 
word was good and his hand heavy ; he fined one man $500 for 
taking up Dr. Shelton's horse and not returning it to camp, bu/t 
keeping it until the guerrillas took it. The man threatened to 
appeal to the Colonel's superiors, as he had taken the oath of 
allegiance to the Union. Colonel Bissell replied, that if he had 
known of his taking the oath he would have gone up the first tree. 
A week on hard bread and cold water brought the man to terms. 

We never could get these roving guerrillas to stand for a fight, 
though they met them dozens of times in the neighborhood of 
Saulsbury, and almost always two or three to one of us, but they 
never failed to run as fast as their horses could carry them, and one 
day two men of Company K drove thirty of them more than a 
mile. 

THE NIGHT PIAWKS. 

In this part of the country, west of Corinth, in North Missis- 
sippi and Southern Tennessee, the Union men were about as numer- 
ous as the Rebels : they w^ere organized into bands and called them- 
selves Night Hawks, and retaliated every time they were molested 
, by the Rebel element. The spirit and feeling between them was as 
terrible as any to be read in the histories of the middle ages. The 
Union Night Hawks were mostly ])oor men ; not one in twenty ever 
owned a slave ; the soil is poor and hilly, the men ignorant, the 
women use (dip) snuff immoderately. An unusual experience was that 
these men were not afraid to figiit. The Rebel partizans (guerrillas), 
on the other hand, would not stand up to a fight. Colonel Bissell said, 
" with four hundred of his men he would not hesitate to meet four 
thousand of them ; that strategy was good in its place and some- 



90 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

times necessary, but is not to override energy and vigor." Tlie 
condition of things and movements here are better stated by Colonel 
Bissell himself as follows : 

COLONEL BISSELL'S STATEMENT IN KEGAED TO THE 
TENNESSEEANS AND THE OPERATIONS 
AEOUND POCAHONTAS. 

" The worst class of people with whom we came in contact were 
the 'stay-at-homes' in Northern Mississippi and that part of Ten- 
nessee bordering upon the Mississippi line. They had been small 
slave-holders before the war and took the loss of their slaves more to 
heart than did the large planters further south. Their ' chattels ' 
were so near the border line, and escape was comparatively so easy, 
that it required an extra number of blood-hounds to be kept on 
hand, and a greater degree of vigilance in watching the movements 
of strangers and wandering colored people. All the young men 
w^ho could be coaxed or driven into the Rebel army were there ; the 
others were to them as o^itlaws, and if found in the neighborhood 
were hunted and treated as such. "While professing strict neutrality 
and peacefulness, they were constanth^ on the watch to do us harm 
and to convey to the enemy all the information they could. They 
were notified that open hostility would be permitted and received 
in a soldier-like manner, but that firing upon trains and guerrilla 
warfare w^ould be met with the severest punishment, and that if 
any of our trains were fired upon or any of the men ambushed, 
eyery building wnthin five miles of the spot would be at once 
burned. The effect was salutary, and not a circumstance of that 
kind occurred to call for punishment. 

" Once a train was stopped by a flag and the men all carried off 
as prisoners, but none of them were injured nor was the train 
harmed. Lieutenant Goodrich, who was in command, said that his 
captor was civil, and that as he was taken South his guard was 
changed at nearly every house ; the men being enlisted for 
this particular raid, which was supposed to be upon a paymaster's 
train. The Lieutenant had time to slip his money under his shoe 
lining, so his captor did not get even that. Our faithful allies here 
were the ' night hawks,' a band of about twenty Union men who 
were not allowed by the ' stay-at-homes ' to remain upon their 
places and who thought they could do more good as scouts than as 
regular soldiers in our army. They had succeeded in killing nearly 



. COLONEL BISSELl's STATEMENT. 91 

all the bloodhounds, and our doctors furnished them with strychnine, 
so that the remainder were soon disposed of. We remounted them 
with good horses from our surplus stock, and furnished part of them 
with repeating rifles. When General Sherman was marching from 
Corinth to Memphis and tearing up the railroad, one of his brigades 
lost its way. The officer in command stopped at a house upon the 
road and wanted a boy about twelve years of age to show him 
the road to the main route. His mother begged with tears that he 
might not be taken, his father was a Union man in the Union 
army, and if the boy went the family would be made to suffer. 
The officer said that his letter stating that the boy wdiS forced to go 
would protect them, and he gave it in the strongest language. 

" But within a week this bov was hanged to a tree in the front 
yard in the presence of the family by the very neighbors who to us 
professed to be so neutral. When the ' night hawks' had obtained 
their new horses and guns, they hung the boy's murderers to the 
same tree, and gave such notice that neither this nor any other 
Union family was molested, at least while our army was in Western 
Tennessee. 

" Soon after this two officers came from Corinth with a letter 
from the officer in command there, asking for the services of an effi- 
cient 'night hawk.' Their story was that in a skirmish a few 
months before they were wounded, and crawled into a fence corner 
and were not found when the rest of the wounded were carried 
away ; that the next day some of the people in the neighborhood 
came around, and finding that they were alive, stripped them of 
their clothes, and amused themselves by using them as targets. 
Fortunately the powder was poor, and they received no fresh 
wounds, though they made a fearful yell at each shot. After dark 
some negroes took them to a Union camp, and they were now well, 
but not strong. They had carefully noted the face of each one of 
their tormentors, and knew tiiey would be able to identify them. 
They did find every one of them, and started for Corinth with the 
' night hawks ' as escort. 

"One day a man came to the camp with this story: that he 
was a Union man, that he was forced into the Rebel army, that he 
deserted and returned home, that he worked upon his little farm on 
bright nights, keeping hid in the woods during the day, that one of 
his rich and influential neighbors, with a military title (we will call 
him Major Jones), 'suspected that he was around and hunted him 
up with dogs, caught him, tied him to a tree and whipped him 



92 THE ENGINEER EEGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

and then sent him back to the Eebel army; that he had again deserted 
and had now enhsted in a Tennessee loyal Regiment. Without let- 
ting his family know, a Lieutenant was sent to his house, when his 
story was fully confirmed. Our Colonel sent for Major Jones, con- 
stituting himself a court martial, and appointing this Lieutenant 
judge advocate. The Major denied the whole story and every part 
thereof, said his dogs (which where now all dead) were only for 
hunting deer. When one of the 'night hawks' was called in the 
Major admitted that once, and only once, his dogs had been used to 
hunt a 'worthless nigger' who was prowling about the woods. 
The Lieutenant was relentless, and he finally recollected that his 
pack had been used a second time for negroes; but never, no, never, 
to hunt up any white man. When his receipt for so much money 
paid by a Quartermaster C S. A., for the use of his dogs was pro- 
duced, he wilted, and as the phrase is, 'threw himself upon the mercy 
of the court.' He would not admit that he had ever known 'Mr. 
Smith,' although he had heard there was or had been such a man 
in the neighborhood. When Mr. Smith stepped out from behind a 
screen the gallant Major nearly fainted away, and it took a stiff 
drink of Dr. Shelton's best brandy to revive him. When asked to 
go to Corinth with Mr. Smith and deny his story there, he earnestly 
asked to be excused ; and when told that he must go, he went so far 
as to get down upon his knees and beg not to be put in the power 
of ' that man.' Several of the 'night hawks' volunteered as escort, 
and the procession started. An hour or two afterward ]\[r. Smith 
came back and applied for a couple of wagons to bring his family 
and effects to the camp, these were furnished and they were all 
safely started for Memphis. 

" The Sergeant of the picket put on the Corinth road reported 
that outside the lines he saw a man start out from a party and try 
to run away, that when called to stop he only ran the harder, when 
the party fired upon him and he fell. 

" While rebuilding' the railroad about fort}'^ miles east of Mem- 
phis, General McArthur, who was in command of a brigade near by, 
tried hard to find out what became of some of his men. Every few 
nights a small squad would be missing and never again heard from. 
One of our men by the name of Logan, from Paris, Illinois, was 
detailed to work the matter up ; he soon reported that about two 
miles north of us was a small private still, the whiskey from which 
was the temptation. The soldiers who obtained the liquor were 
mum and the fact that once or twice a week the whole party were 
run off to Rebeldom did not deter others from going. 



TEMPERANCE IN THE MISSOURI ENGINEER REGIMENT. 93 

'• One night one of our Captains, with a couple of hundred men 
started to investie:ate. The premises were surrounded and proceed- 
ings begun. The dwelKng was a very large one, Avell finished and 
furnished. Repeated knocks brought a woman to an upper win- 
dow ; she declared that she was alone, that there was no one but 
herself in the house. Threats of breaking the door brought her 
down. There was no trouble in finding plenty of candles, by the 
light of which it was found that it was a regular manufactory of 
clothing for the Rebel army, the cloth being smuggled through the 
lines from Memphis. The negroes upon the place were first sup- 
plied with whatever they wanted and the rest was distributed 
among the men of the Expedition. In the still house no liquor was 
found, but the mash tubs were full of the 'beer' from which the 
whiskey was distilled. This was made from persimmons and the 
men who had been eating freely of honey found in some ' bee 
gums' in the yard, found it very palitable. Shall I tell the effect 
of honey and persimmon beer ? Every one who partook was on 
the sick list for about three days. The celebrated ' Tennessee 
quick-step ' was nothing in comparison. 

" Several fine mules and a number ofbales of cotton were found. 
These were all given to the negroes of the place and they were 
all sent to a trusted man in Cincinnati. He sold the cotton for 
about a dollar a pound, bought a farm in Southern Ohio for the men 
where they were made contented and happy. 

A few years after the war closed, the owner of the place pre- 
sented his account to the Court of Claims in Washington fortified 
with sundry affidavits of his loyalty and devotion to the Union 
cause — the sum was quite large, over $20,000. All the papers were 
referred to Colonel Bissell who reported to the Court that the items 
as reported were correct but the account was not full enough ; to it 

should be added yards grey cloth smuggled from Memphis, 

Rebel uniforms partly finished, uniforms complete, 

$ — , being $ — each for over fifty Union soldiers decoyed by whiskey 
and sent prisoners to Rebel prisons." 

TEMPERANCE IN THE MISSOURI ENGINEER REGIMENT. 

Colonel Bissell had determined from the start that he would 
have a temperate, if not a temperance set of men, by keeping 
liquor away with a firm, vigorous policy. 

The entire officers of the Regiment also, looking at it as an 
organization formed to accomplish certain results, and thinking it 



94 THE ENGINEEK REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

might be called upon to do important duties, concluded that, if con- 
ducted upon temperance principles, it would be the best course, 
thev therefore took the stand, the wisdom of which was often 
demonstrated. The Surgeon and his assistant contributed greatly 
to the success of what was certainly, in army life, an experiment. 
The men were told just what was expected of them, and that if any 
of them thought they really needed a drink, they could always 
have the very best liquor at the Doctor's tent without charge. They 
were put upon their honor whenever they had passes to visit any 
village, and they always kept their word. There might have been 
some cases of overstepping the bounds, but they were so rare and 
so well concealed that none of them reached headquarters. 

A person can not realize how great is the thirst for liquor in 
some men and the methods to which they will resort and the prices 
they will pay to get it, unless he has been with a body of men like 
an army, when so many of the men have been hard drinkers in 
cities and villages. During the early part of the war whiskey 
was worth about twenty cents a gallon. As it sold readily in the 
camps for a dollar or more a bottle, the temptation was great to take 
advantage of this market. The officers might issue all manner of 
orders, but the smugglers found many wa3's to pass the lines, espe- 
cially when the bribe would be so tempting to the guard. 

The Regiment took the field when it was about half full, and 
its first duties were to assist the Quartermaster's department and 
the Missouri Pacific Eailroad in the repair of that road and the 
movement of trains. They started out upon ver}^ short notice and 
entirely without blankets or overcoats, trusting to the promises of 
the Quartermaster at St. Louis for a supply to be sent. None came, 
and the nights were getting cold, but as the men used the buildings 
of the railroad company and as September had not yet passed there 
was no great inconvenience. 

One day a new Missouri Regiment came up the road finely 
equipped, as their colonel was a politician and in favor with the 
authorities. They stopped one day at Jefferson City, but the next 
day when they were to start there were about half of them missing. 
About two hundred of our men.were there, who were given the task of 
"shipping" the laggards while their Colonel started up the road 
with the remainder. The stragglers were all found " lying around 
loose, " a rather tight , and they were duly shipped, a car load at a 
time, but it was noticed that the whole detachment of the Engineer's 
Regiment had new overcoats and good blankets. 



TEMPERANCE IN THE MISSOURI ENGINEER REGIMENT ' 95 

While General Pope's command was stationed at Lamine Bridge, 
great complaint was made by the Colonels of some of the regiments 
that liquor was smuggled into their camps in spite of the most strin- 
gent regulations and the utm.ost care. The Sixth Missouri was in 
the worst plight, as sometimes they would have dozens of men drunk 
at a time. General Pope called in Colonel Bissell and gave him full 
authority in the matter. The Colonel first went to all the Sutlers 
and told them that if they sold a drop of liquor, or any was found 
upon their premises, their whole stock would be confiscated. This 
helped the matter ; but as nothing more was said, and no notice 
taken of the new drunks, they concluded it was all talk, and soon 
the plague was about as bad as ever. But our Colonel had not been 
idle ; he had called in Le Koy Kichardson, of Company C, and told 
him that if he and -'Company Q " would find out where the liquor 
came from, and would prove it, they should have the spoiling of the 
Sutlers' tents. Le Koy soon reported that the liquor all came from 
the Sutler of the Sixth Missouri, that it was smuggled in milk cans 
made double. At the proper time Captain Patten, with his full 
company, " interviewed " Mr. Jew Sutler and found the liquor as 
reported. Our Colonel kept his word, and several hundred dollars' 
• worth of nice goods made glad the hearts of Company C, and no 
more hquor was to be had about that camp. 

After the battle of Shiloh large reinforcements were sent to 
General Grant by steamboats, all of which took their final clearance 
from Cairo. At this port the boat captains were uniformly told 
that they must in no circumstances take a particle of wine or liquor 
with them, and they all agreed faithfully that it should not be done, 
but the sequel shows that the temptation of great profits was too 
strong. General Grant was often complaining of the bad effects of 
whiskey continually present, until one day he said something about 
it to General Pope, who answered that he had an oflScer who could 
locate the liquor. Oar Colonel was called in and given full 
authority, as in the case at Lamine. He first went to each boat, 
and, calling the captain, clerk and bar-tender, told them that he 
suspected they had liquor on board, that he would give them 
two days to "disinfect" the boat, and that, if after that time a 
single drop of liquor or wine was to be found, everything in the 
ship, of stores brought for sale would be confiscated ; the inevitable 
Le Koy Kichardson and "Company Q " were then given the hint. 
Every bartender had laid in a large stock of tobacco, candy* 
canned goods, etc., some of them several thousand dollars' worth' 



96 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

and it was hoped that the warning would be heeded, as their loss 
would be heavy if the threat were carried out. Some of them sent 
ofl a few cases, most of them nothing. 

In due time Le Koy reported that every boat had liquor on 
board and most of them were selling, though the price had risen to 
$2 a bottle. 

The next morning a strong guard was placed on each boat, and 
the fan began. The jwison all went overboard into the water on 
one side of the boat, the spoils were thrown among the soldiers on 
the other. Before work was finished on the first boat there were 
thousands of them waiting and ready to catch the boxes of cigars 
and all sorts of good things that were thrown out as fast as they 
could be handled. The captains raved and stormed and threatened, 
but it was of no use, and bj^ the time the twentieth boat had been 
disinfected, there were that number of captains, clerks and bar- 
tenders who had found out how strong was the military arm. 
That raid is a tradition of " the Eiver " as is " black Friday " one 
of Wall street. When the command of the Eegiment devolved on 
Colonel Flad, he also carried out the policy of excluding liquors ; 
not allowing even beer to be sold in the vicinity of his camp. 

April 28th, the Eegiment was sent to Porter's Creek, where 
a laro-e trestle was found nearly destroyed, which the battalion com- 
pleted on the 3d of May. 

On the 30th the battalion was mustered for pay. Company E 

sent to Saulsbury. 

May 1st Lieutenant Goodrich was captured by a band of guer- 
rillas too-ether with the train under his command, a short distance 
west of Saulsbury. This was accom])lished by one of the band 
dressino- in Federal uniform and signalizing the train to stop. Not 
suspecting the strategy, the train was stopped immediately and 
came to a "stand still" within a deep cut, when to their astonish- 
ment thirty or forty desperadoes came pouring down over the banks, 
and left no alternative but an unconditional surrender. On his per- 
son was about $1,000, which he managed carefully to secrete and 
secure ao-ainst their vigilant search. He was taken some miles into 
the interior (after they had first started the locomotive back to 
Grand Junction under a full head of steam), when the band was 
overtaken by a party of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry, and, in the melee 
which followed Lieutenant Goodrich, together with the other pris- 
oners, made his escape, and returned to the battalion on the 3d. 
In the mean time Captain Werth had gone to Saulsbury, under 



TEMPERANCE IN THE MISSOURI ENGINEER REGIMENT. 97 

orders to investigate the matter, and to discover if possible whether 
the citizens of that place were implicated in the capture. 

Ma}^ 4th, Colonel Bissell again went to Memphis, and did not 
return until the 6th. The battalion moved to Muddy Creek, near 
Pocahontas, where a large iron bridge had been destroyed, and made 
camp on the east side on a high piece of ground ; Company E, under 
Lieutenant Prescott, remaining on the west side. 

Ttie train used by the Keigment for bringing timbers and other 
materials required, was fitted out with a guard of boiler iron for the 
Engineer on the locomotive, and a flat car was fitted up with a tim- 
ber guard faced on the outside with boiler iron, and carrying a ten- 
pounder Parrott gun with a train guard of fifteen men, they called 
this bullet-proof car their gunboat. 

May 8, 1862, details from Companies B, H and G, accompanied 
by the Home Guards of Pocahontas, were ordered outon a forag- 
ing expedition, and proceeded about twelve miles into the country, 
to what is known as Ray's planation (a noted Rebel), where a large 
amount of corn and commissary stores were obtained. While there 
it was ascertained from the negroes that two guerrillas had remained 
there the night previous, having in charge a Federal soldier, and had 
left but a short time before. Upon hearing this, Lieutenant Bras 
started in pursuit with a few picked men, and in one hour returned 
with the guerrillas and the rescued men, having overtaken them 
about five miles distant. 

May 11th Company G moved into Pocahontas, and the citizens 
of that place exhibited a strong Union and friendly feeling. The 
next day the news was received that Richmond was taken, and so 
reliul)le did it appear, that in the evening the battalion celebrated it 
with cannon, musketry and bonfires. 

Colonel Bissell and Adjutant Hudson started for Vicksburg the 
same day, May 13th, the other companies of the battalion moved to 
Pocahontas and made camp. Lieutenant Parker was appointed 
Provost-Marshal of the post, and filled that position until relieved 
by the arrival of Colonel Meisner's Brigade, June 6th. 

There remained but one important bridge to complete, viz.: that 
of the Hatchie, before meeting the workmen from Corinth, and 
the battalion, now under Major Flad, applied itself to the work, 
and although the bridge was a very large one (formerly built of 
iron), it was completed and the train passed safely over the whole 
road on the 12th of June. In the meantime, a great deal of other 
work presented itself. It was found that the whole road was badly 



98 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

out of repair. The ties bad become rotten, and all the smaller 
brido-es and culverts useless ; so much so that on the ITth a locomo- 
tive broke through a small trestle at Middleton, and was injured 
so Ibadly as to render it useless. Lieutenant Wilcox was there- 
fore detailed, with a large detachment of men, to carefully ex- 
amine and put in repair all small bridges and trestles of doubtful 
security. 

May 19tb, it having been ascertained that a large force of guer- 
rillas was near, and there being no other troops within supporting 
distance, all other work was, for a time, suspended, and the work 
of fortifying the place commenced. A fine earthwork was soon 
constructed, in which was mounted, shortly after, four guns. 

May 22d, Sol. Street, with his band of guerrdlas, made a dem- 
onstration against the place, but after a reconnoisance of our posi- 
tion, withdrew. His band, however, was attacked that night and 
completely broken up for a time; more than half of his men were 
icilled and wounded. 

On the 27th, while at Yicksburg, Colonel Bissell resigned, and 
while waiting action on his papers, obtained leave of absence from 
the Kegiment. His resignation, however, having been accepted, he 
did not rejoin. 

On the 2d of June the resignation of Lieutenant Connett, 
which had been previously tendered, was accepted. 

On the 6th of June, a brigade having arrived to garrison the 
place, the whole command was turned over, and the battalion was 
thereafter devoted exclusively to engineering. 

June 14th an engine, one car and the gun car, with a detail of 
the Regiment on board, ran into a chasm where a bridge had been 
burned ; the shells and two hundred pounds of powder on the gun 
car exploded. A Lieutenant Morgan and one man were killed and 
fourteen wounded belonging to a Tennessee regiment ; the fireman 
was so badly injured that he died. June 2J:th the men captured and 
paroled at Holly Springs, December, 1862, returned to duty having 
been exchanged. July 15th, Companies E, H and K moved to a 
camp five miles east of Pocahontas, at Tuscumbia River bridge, and 
operated a steam sawmill there; left August 24th with a regiment 
for Memphis, but returned to the sawmill, Sejitember 18th, and 
remained until October 4th. 

September 23d, Rev. E L. Hunt, a Baptist minister, was elected 
Chaplain of the Regiment, and served until December 31st, when he 
was mustered out at the consolidation of the Engineei' Regiment of 



TEMPEKANCE IN THE MISSOURI ENGINEER REGIMENT. 99 

the West Missouri Volunteers, with the Twenty-fifth Missouri 
Infantry. , 

June 10th notice was received that the resignation of Lieutenant- 
Colonel Adams, which had been previously tendered, had been 
accepted on the 25th of May ; the following day Lieutenant Wilcox 
was transferred from Company G to the charge of Company K. 

The battalion remained at Pocahontas, engaged in getting out 
ties, timber, constructing fortifications along the line of the road, 
scouting, etc., until the 21st of August, when it moved under orders 
to Memphis, with a view of rejoining the First Battalion at Yicks- 
burg. While at the former place, however, a countermand order 
was received, and after going into camp long enough to supplv a 
deficiency in the camp equipage and receiving four months' payment, 
it returned to Pocahontas again on the 30th. 

While at the latter place the battalion did considerable scout- 
ing, and for this purpose Lieutenant Bras was detailed, who, wath a 
detachment of about thirt}^ men, principall}^ from Company K, pre- 
pared themselves with a mounted outfit. Becoming somewhat 
familiar with the cavalry drill, they acquitted themselves creditabh^ 
in every encounter with the enemv. On one occasion, while return- 
ing with a forage train, the rear guard Avas fired into from an 
ambuscade, and one mule w^ounded. But they were promptlv 
attacked in return, and compelled to beat a hasty retreat. At 
another time, having passed up a narrow lane in search of forao-e, 
upon their return, the end of the lane was found to be fenced up, 
and ere they had time to remove the same or to conjecture the 
cause of the obstruction, they received a full volley from a neio-li- 
boring thicket. No one w^as hurt however, and the next moment a 
party of rebels were bounding awa}^ before the reckless dash of our 
men. 

At another time (August 11) the party was attacked by Street's 
guerrilla band, while the former were in the act of crossing Muddy- 
Creek ; the Rebels rushing up from their ambuscades upon the rear 
guard with one of those demoniacal yells for which they have 
always been celebrated, and with the evident intention of throwino- 
the whole in confusion, but our men had too long subjected them- 
selves to the discipline of soldiers to be surprised by bushwhackers. 

Lieutenant Bras was on hand, and the men prompt to obev his 
calls. A part of the command, under Sergeant Carlin, was immedi- 
ately sent to cross at a lower ford and to attack the Rebels in flank 
while the remainder attracted their attention in front. No sooner 



100 THE ENGINEEK REGIMENT OF THE WEST, 

did they find a force on their flank, than they broke in confusion, in 
the midst of which there were two killed and seven wounded. The 
rest scattered in every direction. Street was himself so closely 
])ursued that he was obliged to leap from his horse and escape to 
the thicket, his horse, blankets, muster-rolls and everything falling 
into the hands of our men. 

July 10th, the resignation of Lieutenant Bissell, which had 
been previously tendered, was accepted, followed by that of Lieu- 
tenant J. W. Hooker, on the 11th. 

July 30th, Major Flad received commission of Lieutenant-Col- 
onel, vice Adams resigned, having been mustered out by Lieutenant 
Hoffman for that purpose on the 10th of the same month. 

August 21:th, notice of the acceptance of Dr. Shelton's resigna- 
tion was received, which occurred on the 30th July previous. 



TO lUKA AND CORINTH. 

Upon the return of the Kegiment from Memphis, as already 
mentioned, it engaged in the same line of duty as before, and 
remained until the 3d of October, when the battalion broke up camp 
at daylight and proceeded on the train to Corinth; leaving, how- 
ever. Companies G and K to finish some business already com- 
menced. Company H, although detailed to proceed with the 
battalion, did not go up on the same train, but arrived in Coi'inth 
the same evening. On the way the battalion narrowly escaped a 
catastrophe, the enemy having burned a small unguarded bridge, 
notice of which was given by a friendly citizen in time to stop the 
train. It was, however, the wor-k of only a few hours to replace it, 
and the command proceeded on. 

At Corinth the battalion was joined by Dr. J. C. Book, wiio 
had been commissioned Surgeon in the Army and assigned to this 
Reo-iment, and who was mustered on the same day, October 3d. 

October 4th, the battalion moved from Corinth to Glendale, 
repairing the roatl as it went, where it remained until the 6th, when 
it moved to Burnsville. The object of the expedition was to open 
the Memphis & Charleston Railroad east from Corinth, in advance 
of General Sherman's march over that line to reinforce General 
Grant at Chattanooga. 

October 12th, the bridges were all completed to luka, and the 
train passed through and returned in the evening. 



TO lUKA AND CORINTH. , 101 

October l-ith, the Battalion moved to luka and made camp a 
little north of the town. 

October 16th, moved camp to Clear Creek, where it remained 
until the 23d of October, when it removed in the midst of a severe 
rain storm to Buzzard Roost. 

October 28th, moved camp to Dixon, from which place on the 
following- day the Battalion returned again to Bear Creek, having 
accomplished all that was desired, and going as far as General Sher- 
man designed to proceed on that line. It was said, and with a good 
degree of truth, that the Battalion constructed bridges on this 
march as fast as the Eebels could burn them, and until frightened at 
the rapidity with which their mischief was repaired, began the com- 
plete destruction of the whole road by adtling the burning of ties 
and bendino- of iron. During the march the Battalion was divided 
into detachments and assigned to the different branches of work 
along the road. In that manner half a dozen bridges would be in 
course of construction at the same time, many of which were very 
large. AVhile at Burnsville the battalion was rejoined by Company 
G, which Company, under Captain Werth, was charged with the 
construction of a large bridge at luka. 

October 20th, Company K arrived while the Battalion was at 
Clear Creek, and was charged with the construction of the bridge 
over Bear Creek, a work of three hundred feet in length, which had 
to be piled the whole distance, and which was finished in seven 
days, principally bj^ that Company. Several amusing incidents 
occurred while on that expedition. At one time, while encamped 
at Glendale, one of the Lieutenants, with a small party went out on 
a turkey hunt, of which game that country abounded. It happened 
that an old lame mule, of little service in the teams, had been turned 
out that morning; to o-raze and recruit, and had straved some dis- 
tance into the timber. As the Lieutenant made the ascent of a 
sharp hill, he discovered the top of the mule's head, as that animal 
stood in fancied security on the other side of the crest. Having 
much the appearance of the fowl so prominent in his imagination, 
the Lieutenant secured a good -place to aim, and the next moment 
the whole party were convulsed with the laughter that the scene 
foced upon them, as they discovered that the shot designed for what 
they supposed a turkey had penetrated the head of the mule in 
question. 

Upon another occasion, while the Battalion was at Burnsville, 
some of the men were in want of flooring to spread their blankets 



102 TRE ENGINEEK REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

upon. For this purpose they had taken charge of two doors, and 
were about to proceed with them to camp, when the Provost Guard, 
who had been instructed to have nothing disturbed in town, inter- 
fered and stopped the arrangement. But they were not to be thus 
baffled. In a few moments one of them was taken violently sick, 
and had to be taken to camp. Of course something was required 
to carry him on, and accordingly he was stretched upon one of the 
doors (that being the most convenient), a blanket spread over him, 
and in this way conveyed to camp by his comrades, upon reachiijg 
which it was found that they had accidentally taken both doors, 
one having been laid immediatelv above the other. It is also a 
remarkable fact that the sickness of the man was of short duration, 
and urgent business prevented the doors from being taken back. 

First Lieutenant Sherwood died at Jefferson Barracks, Mis- 
souri, August 8, 1863. 

October 28th notice of the previous appointment of Rev. E, L. 
Hunt as Chaplain of the Regiment was received. 

October 9th Captain E. M. Hill was commissioned Major, vice 
Flad, promoted, and First Lieutenant Wilcox commissioned Captain 
of Company D, vice Hill, promoted ; also Sergeant David Armstrong 
promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company C,vice Bissell, resigned. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Flad had made a bet that he could get all 
the bridges repaired and a train through to luka by the 12th, and 
won the bet. 

October 16th Lieutenant-Colonel Flad was promoted to the rank 
of Colonel. 

October 30th the Battalion returned to luka, after having fur- 
nished guard for the Bear Creek Bridge, the night previous all other 
troops having accompanied General Sherman. Two men from Com- 
pany K having proceeded a short distance from camp, were left and 
fell into the enemy's hands, who advanced to the bridge shortly after 
the battalion left. The same evening Company C was ordered to 
guard a bridge near Burnsville, while Lieutenant Parker, with a detail 
from the same, proceeded to Glendale to ship some ammunition 
belonffinoj to the Regiment to Corinth, and which had been stored 
at the former place for safe keeping. 

October 31st the whole battalion removed to Corinth and quar- 
tered in what was known as the barracks of the Fifty-seventh Illi- 
nois Infantry, which had just been vacated by them. 

November 2d, Lieutenants Winegar, Coy and Parker went to 
Memphis, and the latter returned to the battalion on the Tth. The 



TO lUKA AND COKINTH. 103 

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two former proceeded to Yicksburg on business, returning on the 
6th of December. The battalion remained at Corinth actively 
engaged in drill, guarding trains and repairing fortifications at that 
place, until the 2Gth of December, when it was moved by orders to 
Nashville, under command of Major Hill, for the purpose of con- 
solidation with the Twenty-fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, 
Colonel Flad having previously gone to St. Louis for that purpose. 

The works constructed while at Corinth, particularly Batteries 
"Williams and Robinett, were fine specimens of engineering skill, 
and declared to be impregnable, 

November 13th notice of the promotion of F. Tunica to First 
Lieutenant Compan\^ B was received ; the promotion, however, 
having been made on the 17th of August, 1863. 

The battalion arrived at Memphis on the evening of the 26th 
of December, and was furnished transportation on the steamer 
America. The trip will long be remembered by all on board, for 
its hardships and exposure. The record will furnish but few 
instances Avherein the weather was of greater severity, while six 
companies were obliged to be crowded upon a boat of the smallest 
class, without fire, and little or no facilities for cooking. 

At Cairo the battalion reported for orders, and it excites but 
little surprise that the men, after having been thus exposed united 
for a while in what is termed a ''good time." 

On the 31st of December the Battalion arrived at Smithland, 
Kentucky, where the cold became so intense that the boat was 
unable to proceed, and the men nearly perished with its severity. 
In this state of aifairs Major Hill refused to proceed any further 
until an improved condition of the w^eather would warrant it. The 
boat was therefore made fast, and all who were unable to procure 
shelter in the cabin were quartered in vacant buildings. 

On the ith of January, 1864, the battalion arrived at Nashville, 
and immediately went into camp for the purpose of effecting the 
consolidation. 

While at luka, Mississippi, the men were exposed a good deal 
to cold rains without proper shielter, and a severe type of dysentry 
broke out among them. James V. Hampton, of Company K, died 
of that disease there on the 18tli of October, and his body was sent 
home to New London, Iowa, by his comrades. 

October 24:th, at the camp near Bear Creek, General Sherman, 
on his way to Chattanooga, passed part of the day and the fol 
lowing night, and while in conversation with Colonel Flad, the 



104 THE ENGINEER EEGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

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writer heard tlie General make the remark that he was preparmg 
his men so that he could pick the whole command up (making a 
scoop-Hke motion with his two hands) and go anywhere with them, 
cutting loose from all the railroads and living off the countrv. This 
was verified just a year afterward in " Sherman's March to the Sea." 

THE CAMP IN CORmTH, MISSISSIPPI. 

While in camp at Corinth, the work done besides repairing the 
fort was repairing bridges between Corinth and Memphis. Company 
E worked at building a Cotton Gin, and enlarging the Kegimental 
Hospital. 

December 6th. While Companies li and E were repairing the 
bridge at Moscow, the enemy tried to surprise and capture them, 
and there was quite a lively fight for a time; Lieutenant Goodrich 
took charge of the Artillery during the fight. 

December 18th, a detail of one hundred and fifty, from four 
companies, were sent to Glendale, east of Corinth, to repair a saw- 
mill; they found it burned, and loaded the machinery and some 
timbers on the train and brought them to Corinth, where the}' erected 
the saw-mill. 

THE TPJP TO NASHVILLE. 

On the trip up the river to Nashville the boat arrived at Smith- 
land, the mouth of the Cumberland River, about 9 a. m., December 
30th, weather very fine until afternoon it commenced to rain, and 
about 5 p. M. the wind changed to the northwest with snow and 
rapidly growing colder, until about 9 p. m. Colonel Flad, fearing 
his men would freeze to death, took Companies B, H and K, to a 
brick church in the village, making fires with the fencing. 

January 1, 1864, the thermometer on the boat registered eighteen 
degrees below zero. The boat started up the Cumberland Piver at 
3 p. M. The cold was so severe the first night on the Cumberland 
Piver that the men nearly perished, the boat was so ci'owded that 
the men could not all get into the cabin, every state-room, bunk and 
floor was full, and the cabin floor, tables and under the tables, was 
crowded as close as candles in a box. The hurricane deck was pro- 
tected as much as possible by hanging up tents for curtains, still the 
men of Companies C, D and G, who were quartered out there, suf- 
fered terribly with the high wind and the thermometer ten to four- 
teen degrees below zero. 




HENRY FEUERBACH, CO. A, 1st MISSOURI ENGINEERS, 




FOUNTAIN FOX, CO. B, K and A ENGINEERS. 



THE SECOND BATTALION AT VICKSBUKG. 105 

"When we arrived at Nashville on the 4th it was not much 
better ; four degrees below zero, seven inches of snow on the ground, 
no wood, straw or boards to be had. Withal a great deal of trouble 
and red tape to get the sick into the General Hospitals. The private 
citizens were not much better off for fuel, as wood was fifty dollars 
a cord and coal not to be had. Among the men, as a result of this 
exposure, nearly one-third of them came down with coughs, colds 
and lung fever, with quite a number of rheumatisms and bowel com- 
plaints, that made them invalids for the rest of their lives. The 
weather did not moderate until the 10th of January; no regular 
suppl}^ of wood until the 9th, when ten cords were obtained, 
and on tne 10th a detail of fifteen men of Company G went 
down the river with a flat boat and returned with thirty-five 
cords. 

About the 1st of January the men commenced re-enlisting as 
veterans, and by the 20th they were re-enlisting quite rapidly. 



THE SECOND BATTALION AT YICKSBURG. 

Having followed the record of the First Battalion, Ave Avill now 
return to the Second, which was left with the army in front of 
Yicksburg, working at the Duckport Canal, to which it had removed 
on the 31st of March. Companies A, D, F and I were left under 
Major Tweeddale, Dr. Knower as Surgeon. 

Leaving Company I and a detail from Company F, under 
Captain Brackett, at Duckport to fit up dredges, barges, etc., the 
battalion moving out on Walnut Bayou, and were engaged in clear- 
ing out stumps, trees, etc., until the 13th April, when the w^ater was 
let into the canal, and three dredg^es were sent in. 

On the 20th the steamer Victor and two barges were also sent 
in and passed Richmond on the 27th, having been delayed by the 
great amount of work in Brashy Bayou. 

On the 29th April the expedition arrived at Parker's plantation 
and were ordered to proceed through Bayou Yidal to New Car- 
thage, with dispatches for General Grant. 

On the 30th the Battalion moved back to Parker's plantation. 
The water in the bayou began to fall very rapidly, and as it ran 
off through Roundaway Bayou at Richmond, Captain Prime, Chief 
Engineer on General Grant's Staff, directed that a drain be built 
at Richmond. 



106 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

Comjianies A, D and F were engaged at this until May ,9th 
when the battalion moved to Milliken's Eend, bv order of General 
Sullivan. 

On the lltli of May, Major Tweeddale received, on behalf of 
the Engineer Corps, a complimentary letter, of which the following- 
is an extract : 

" General Sullivan directs me to say that the energy and perseverence mani- 
fested by the Engineer Regiment in the construction of the road from Sherman'a 
Landing to Bower's Landing deserves the highest commendation, and should not 
be allowed to pass unnoticed. The work was one of vast importance to our brave 
soldiers in the front, and the General commanding the army in the field shall 
not go unadvised of the amount of praise to be awarded to the Engineer Regi- 
ment. " 

On the 9th of Mav General Grant having^ communicated with 
the Gunboat Fleet by way of Chickasaw Bayou and Yazoo River^ 
the battalion received orders the same night to proceed to Chickasaw 
Bayou and open a road to the bluffs. 

On the 20th of April four gunboats and two transports ran past 
the Yicksburg batteries and received but little damage. On the 
25th, six transports ran past, one, the Henr}^ Clay, was burned. The 
2Sth. one tug and two barges were lost trying to run the batteries. 

May 18th a detachment of Company D left Young's Point for 
Grand Gulf to repair the steamer Auglaze ; the balance of the bat- 
talion at Miliken's Bend, Young's Point and Chickasaw Bayou. 

It remained thus employed until the 25th, when the following- 
order was received, which is inserted for the reason that it more 
clearly defines the duties upon which the battalion was called to 
act : 

Camp in Front op Vicksburg, 

25th May, 1863. 
Major Tweeddale, 

Commanding Battalion Eng. Reg't of the "West. 

Major: On receipt of this you will move your Battalion at once to this side 
of the river, leaving a Sergeant and necessary details to guard your property at 
Young's Point. 

You will leave a Lieutenant and twenty men at the landing on the Yazoo, who 
will take charge of the Pontoon Train and road leading to the landing. The Lieu- 
tenant will report to General Sherman's Headquarters, and obtain all necessary 
instructions and details for the work under his charge. With the balance of your 
Battalion you will take position on the side of the bridge beyond the graveyard on 
the road leading from General McCleruand's command to Warrington. You will 
attract as little notice as possible from the enemy, locate the position of his work 
between- McClernand's left and Lauman's right, and also exi)lorethe country with 



THE SECOND BATTALION AT VICKSBURG. 107 

respect to opening a road for Infantry between those two points in front of the 
road now in use. As soon as you are in position you will send an officer to report 
the fact to me at General Grant's Headquarters. 
By order of Major- General Grant, etc. 

In pursuance of the above order, the Battalion moved on the day 
of its issue, and was engaged upon the work therein indicated until 
the 28th, when it moved under orders to Haines' Bluff, for the pur- 
pose of constructing fortifications at that point, and was thus 
engaged until the 1st of July, when it was ordered to take position 
with the army in the rear of Vicksburg, while Captain E. M. Hill 
was detailed with twenty men to mount the guns in the works com- 
pleted. 

May 27th the detachment repan-i ng steamer at Grand Gulf 
moved to Warrenton, where they were mostly kept until Yicksburg 
surrendered, when the}^ moved in July 5th. 

On the 2d the Battalion moved in pursuance of the order of 
July 1st, and reported to Captain Comstock, Chief Engineer of the 
Department. 

On tlie surrender of Vicksburg, the Battalion moved inside the 
line of Avorks, and was emploA^ed in destroying the works con- 
structed during the siege by the Federals until August, when a 
new line was commenced, and to obtain lumber for the profile and 
revetments a sawmill near Snyder's Bluff was called into requisition. 

The logs were obtained from the Yazoo River, being a part of ^ 
the raft that was constructed across the same at Snyder's Bluff 
by the Rebels to obstruct its navigation. On'the withdrawal of the 
Federal troops for the Big Black River, the mill was abandoned, 
the logs floated down to Vicksburg, and a new sawmill erected by 
the battalion. 

August 1-itth a detachment of Company D was moved out of 
Vicksburg four miles to repair a railroad bridge, and remained 
there until August 24th. 

The Battalion, under Major Tweeddale, was kept at work on 
the fortifications of Vicksburg, and other engineering work there, 
until January 15, 1864, when orders were received to go to Nash- 
ville and join headquarters, to be present at the consolidation with 
the Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry; they arrived at Memphis 
January 23d, left there the 25th, arrived at Cairo the 27th and 
left the 30th. 

The Battalion arrived at Nashville February 2, 1864, and went 
into camp with the main body of the Regiment. 



108 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

On the 4th, the two regiments perfected their consolidation 
with each other; but as it is the purpose only to give here a record 
of the Engineer Regiment of the West up to that time, the history 
of the New Organization will not be entered upon further than to 
append a list of its officers. 

The greatest strength shown by the returns at any one 
time was in the month of December, 1861, when it 
numbered -.-...-. 939 men. 

Enlisted since, 192 " 

Company L, added in December, by order of the Secre- 
tary of War, - - 56 " 

Total, - 1,187 " 

The last company w^as transferred from another regiment, and 
as it was never with the Regiment until the consolidation, its historj'- 
would add but little interest to the record here. 

From the above can be taken the following: 
Died from disease, ..-.----80 

Discharged for disability, ------- 130 

Deserted, - . 78 

Reported at the date of consolidation. . - - - 795 

Total, ....--.- -1,083 

Leaving a discrepancy of 104 men to be accounted for by " miss- 
ing in action " and from other causes. 

With reference to this Regiment the Adjutant-General of Mis- 
souri, in his printed report, makes the following complimentary 
remark in 1863 : 

"The honor of the citizens of IMissouri is due to this working regiment, an 
emblem, as it is, of the noble spirit of labor, while it glorifies the spirit of war by 
engaging in it only when the nation is attacked by a jjortion of its citizens with 
the design of prostrating it at their feet. It may also be added that, by general 
orders, the Regiment was authorized to inscribe upon its banner the name of New 
Madrid, Island No. 10 and Corinth, as an acknowledgment of the important part 
taken by it in the reduction of these strongholds of the enemy." 

THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF HENRY FEUERBACH. 

May 29, 1862, occurred the evacuation of Corinth by the 
Rebels, who were running trains and blowing up their magazines, 
for we could hear them. May 30th, next day, we followed them 
on a )iot and quick march, the whole Regiment in line with Colonel 
Bissell in command. Just at sunset we came up to the Rebel rear 
guards down in the swamps, in which ran Tuscumbia River. Our 



THE CAPTURE AND ESCxVl'E OF HENRY FEUERBACH. 109 

Company in advance, with Captain Randolpli in command, who 
marched us up to a burning bridge, which had all the appearance of 
danger, in place of halting the Company and deploying one platoon 
as skirmishers, so as to gradually feel our way, which would have 
developed what was in front of us; but, no — on we marched, four 
ranks in double file, up the road, until within fifty feet of the 
bridge, when the Rebels opened out on us with a fire of cannon and 
infantry, which drove back all who could get back — three or four 
killed outright. John Lewis, brave, noble soul; Corporal Whitson, 
and two otliers, whose names I have forgotten. Two of us were 
taken prisoners — Piatt Griffith and myself. I was on the edge of 
the river bank and fell down ; some roots sticking out, my right leg 
caught and held me firm. From there early next morning we were 
taken south to Mobile, Alabama; thence to Macon, Georgia. 
At Mobile we were kindly treated under the command of General 
Forsythe. A Rebel officer, who was a native of Florida, came 
in one day while I was lying on the floor and reading " Shake- 
speare " with two friends. He asked me all about what my 
opinion was in reference to our army or the policy of our Govern- 
ment. I told him frankly that w^e would gradually take possession 
of the country, one city after another, and capture the entire South; 
that it would take years, but that we would succeed in the end. 
Then he asked me what I thought would become of their negroes. 
I told him that it was my opinion that all would be freed by us; 
that our banner meant freedom to all who came under it. He was 
partly drunk, and, after I said that the negroes would be free, he 
raved, swore, threw his arms out, right and left, as if he would like 
to lick a whole arm v. He left, but in a few dav's after he tried to 
have me put in a dark cell or guard house, as he swore he would. 
General Forsythe sent one of his staff officers, who was a native of 
JSTew York ; he asked me all about it, and, after he heard my version 
and made inquiries among the men, whether my statement was 
correct, he released me with a friend! v good-bye. General Forsythe 
came to see us one day, to look after our treatment. In the papers 
was an account written by one of their men, a prisoner at Camp 
Douglas, that we "Yank's" were treating them so kindlv *' as a 
matter of policy," so as to demoralize them so none would return 
South again. I asked the General if he had read it. He said, yes. 
I told him he could try that experiment on us, if he thought it 
would have a like effect. He looked at me, smiled and went 
away. 



110 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

After ^ye left Montgomery, Alabama, on our way to Macon, 
Georgia, the second station on the train ahead of us were a lot of 
Rebels to reinforce Lee, for the second battle of Bull Run had just 
been fought. A lot of Alabama ladies were on horseback, with 
flowers to give their men as an encouragement of " Southern Chiv- 
alry." I thought the flowers would also be an encouragement to us 
Yankees, so I called to them that they should fairly distribute them 
among us all. One fair lad}" rode near our car, threw me a bouquet, 
for Avhich I thanked her. The officer in charge of the guard told her 
the mistake she made ; that we were " Yanks." That officer spoilt 
all of the pleasure of those ladies for that day. On the same train a 
fruit dealer came to sell us peaches. I bought them all with a 
label from a bottle of Mexican Liniment ; any bill that was decently 
engraved with a horse or a railroad train you could pass. Every 
town or business house, no matter how small, had its own paper 
money ; such was free trade in Confederate paper money. 

At Macon there were all of the Shiloh prisoners, with our Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Adams, who was taken prisoner at Farmington. 
Adams had all the refined character of a soldier and gentleman, but 
upon his return he resigned and returned to St. Louis, where he died 
before the war ended, with consumption, honored and respected by 
all who knew him. 

While in prison our whole time was occupied in thinking and 
planning how to make our escape, because if we remained prisoners 
among them all hope and courage was lost, or if one was taken sick, 
the last hope was gone. I have helped to bury many of our comi-ades, 
who, when they took sick, if they could have been sent home among 
their friends, would have been restored to hea'lth. If any men 
deserve a pension, there are none more deserving than those who 
were prisoners. It was starvation from the time you were taken 
until you left. I hardly need to state the account of rations per 
day — corn meal, about a pint cupful, a piece of bacon as large as 
vour hand and full of mag-o-ots ; with the corn meal we made coffee 

»/ CO ^ 

b}" browning it. I was Captain and cook of our mess. One day a 
Rebel guard, who had a great amount of confidence in me, asked me 
in confidence about those gunboat cars which we had that run on 
our railroads; he wanted me to describe them to him, which I did 
in an enlarged shape. I told him they could run on the rails or 
could, if found necessary, walk on land ; the machinery on the 
inside was so arranged as to throw hot water, or throw out long 
arms and draw in a whole company. As green looking as he Avas, 



THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF HENRY FEUERBACH. Ill 

that lost me his confidence ; he raised his musket to make a pass 
with his bayonet at me. but I quickly got out of his road. Our 
men, who knew of the devilment, during- our talk had gathered 
around and laughed at him so loudlv that he thought I had sold 
him, and he never came in among tlie prisoners again to gather 
information. 

Finally the time came for action; our plans were made — to stay 
longer in prison would only reduce our physicial strengtii, for every 
man had vermin more or less on him ; the very ground was covered 
with them. I have seen the lice crawl up the trees. I have seen 
our comrades who died in the Rebel hospital covered all over with 
lice. 

On September 10, 1862, a splendid warm afternoon, toward sun- 
set, three of us, Robert Timmons, of the Thirty -fourth Indiana, 
and Alvin Q. Bacon, of the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry, watched 
Qur chance at the rivulet which ran in and out of the prison pen 
where the water closets were. The guard's route was inside near 
the fence ; the warm sun made him sleepy, so down the ravine we 
went. While our men sat on the seats watching us, we crawded out- 
side of the feuQe, kept alongside and crawled in the high weeds, and 
lay there until long after dark; up Ave ran along the road toward 
the Ocmulgee River. It commenced to rain and thunder. We met 
some Confederate soldiers, who were out stealing apples ; each had 
a load on his shoulders. We passed them with a reply that we 
were on the same errand. ]^o more was said by them or us, for 
when one is on an illegal mission, such as stealing apples, the less 
said the more apples you bring to camp. Toward morning we got 
tired from tramping all night, as we saw in front of us a cotton gin. 
I proposed we take a rest until near daylight ; Timmons opposed it 
as dangerous, but my orders ruled; we lay down for a few minutes; 
it nearly cost us our liberty ; we were awakened by hearing the 
negroes singing on their way to work; it was broad daylight; we 
ran as fast as possible toward the timber, not forgetting to take 
along some green ears of corn. When we got in the timljer, which 
was in a swamp, we lighted a fire and roasted the ears for our morn- 
ing meal. Then we started toward the liver. We in some ])laces had 
to crawl through underbrush ; in one place, over our heads, crawled 
along water moccasin, but we kept on, as we were not after snakes. 
Finally we came to a large baj^ou. On some logs on the other side 
sat some Confederate soldiers fishing. Timmons said we were lost. 
I told him to get behind the tree, ))ull off his blouse and put it on 



112 THE engi^;eek regiment of the west. 

inside out, so they could not tell Ave were Union soldiers by our' uni- 
form. Bacon and myself had on nothing to indicate our nationality. 
I boldly stepped out and halloed over: '' Here is your old mule," 
which was a common expression among the Rebel soldiers ; they 
answered " all right." I asked them how fishing was, they said 
good. I asked them where we could cross, as we wished to go to 
the river bridge to lish ; they told us to go about half a mile up, 
then we could cross on some logs. I bid them '' good-bye," and 
invited them, in case fishing got bad, to come to us at the bridge. I 
asked them what command they belonged to ; they told us Colonel 
Ross' Regiment. I told them we belonged to Major Rylander's 
Battalion, which was part of the command tha.t were guarding us at 
the prison ; they said '' all right." If they came to the bridge they 
never found us, as we surely did not want to see them again. The 
ruse worked well, and I hope they never up to this day found out 
how bad they were fooled by the "Yanks." After crossing we 
made for the brush near the river. During the afternoon, toward 
evening, we heard a negro come along singing the old Southern 
songs ; we needed something to eat. I crawled out to the edge of 
the undergrowth until I was sure that he was a negrOj then I called 
him. He looked as if we were men fallen from another world. I 
spoke to him, took him to my comrades, told him we were making 
our escape, that we wanted something to eat, as we had nothing but 
a few ears of corn all day, that he should bring us something after 
dark. True as steel came our old gray-headed darky friend after 
dark. At first he whistled softly, then louder; we replied. When 
he found all safe he openetl his basket full of eatables, well cooked ; 
if I mistake not, a stewed chicken. A negro in the South during 
the war never betraved a Union soldier ; at least I have never heard, 
of one. They in all cases were our friends and helped us in every 
possible way, even to stealing their masters eatables for our benefit. 
That nio'ht we took from a small lake a flat-bottom boat about six 
teen feet long and square at each end, hauled it about 600 feet to 
the edge of the river bank and launched it. When we tried to get 
in the boat it leaked so badly that one of us had to continually bail 
out the water to keep from sinking. We floated along down stream 
with a strong current, as the Ocmulgee River near Macon, Georgia, 
is narrow. We passed one house after another by drifting with the 
current and laying flat in the boat. About 12 o'clock on the river 
bank we saw a fine canoe about eighteen feet long and three feet 
wide. We " honorably" exchanged with the owner by leaving ours 



THE CAPTUKE AND ESCAPE OF HENRY FEUERBACH. 113 

in place of it, while he slept and dreamed of victories which their 
armies were gaining daily. Next morning we landed below a rope 
ferry on an island where the trees were full of a very large grape, 
which we ate to satisfy our hunger. In about three hours Tim- 
mon's bowels began to loosen, so much so that he got frightened. 
He thought that the large plum-grapes had poisoned him, as none 
of us had ever seen any before. The effect was only temporary, 
though. > 

That night we went to the main shore to see if we could not 
get something to eat for a few days ahead, we slept in a corn crib, 
and toward morning we heard the hogs grounding, so up we 
jumped, got a few ears of corn and threw it to the nearest hog 
which snatched it. I caught it by the hind legs, threw the hog 
over my shoulder and ran to the river bank with the hog squealing 
as loud as hog could. At the bank we bled it and took it to our 
island home ; that gave us the finest fresh hog meat we had since 
\ve left our lines. There was nothing of unusual interest occurred 
until we came near the first railroad bridge, which was guarded by 
Rebels ; how to get under it was a problem; some five or more miles 
above the bridge we camped in the cane brake ; on the opposite 
shore was the Southern steamer, " Southern Belle," which had been 
run out of the reach of our army. We usually camped back from 
the bank, so that we could not be seen ; we pulled our canoe in the 
weeds or hid it under them ; w^e traveled altogether at night ; one 
of us w^ould sleep while two paddled ; we became so used to the 
starry sky, that we could tell the time of night, especially was it 
the case with the sister stars or dipper. We cut cane enough to 
cover our canoe over, then we drifted along until we came squarely 
opposite the center span, then the last one, " myself " crawled under 
the cane and floated with the stream gently along under the bridge ; 
our canoe struck one of the piers and I heard one guard ask what 
time it was, and another answered, about twelve o'clock ; they never 
knew how near the "Yankees" came to that bridge; below it were 
one or two forts, which had outside of them pickets with fires ; we 
saw them and crawled under our cane again out of danger. One 
day in trying to get information, we stopped near a rope ferry; the 
road leading to it was a very fine one ; in the distance we could hear 
a song as if a negro were singing ; on being sure of the color of the 
man depended our safety, and the information we wanted ; we laid 
alongside the road near the landing in a deep gully ; the man was 
singing as joyfully as a lark, but he never knew that because he was 



114 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

white he came near being killed, for Simmons had a short ax, with 
which he wanted to kill him or take him prisoner. I would not 
allow it for it would have resulted in an injury to us, as it would 
have impaired our safety in making our escape. Some ten miles 
below we stopped at an old warehouse ; I went, or sneaked along 
the fence until I came upon some negroes working happily along in 
rows of cotton, singing their usual negro songs. 

After seeing that no white person was near, out I came boldly 
and called them to come to me. I told them we were Union soldiers 
making our wa}^ to our gunboats ; that we wanted something to 
eat. That night in that old one-room warehouse gathered the most 
joyful lot of male and female blacks in all Georgia. They brought 
us cooked meats, corn bread, bacon and chicken. We were the 
first Union soldiers they had ever seen. They put to us question 
after question of how our arm}' was getting along; would we ever 
come their way, and what kind of a man was Lincoln. They had 
been told that he was a mean tyrant who would murder them if 
they ever were caught. That was the kind of yarns the Southerners 
were telling their blacks to keep them well under control. That 
kind of stories had but little effect, as Sherman's army soon came 
along: and settled all such hobgoblin stories. Some ten miles below 
were falls in the river; at the bottom of those rapids was Ilawkins- 
ville ; the negroes told us the falls were dangerous, and that we 
should keep near shore ; when we came to them the current was so 
stronff that I told our comrades that we might as well take our 
chances and let her go, which we did, and got over safely. We did 
not know how many houses there were in town, as we kept on the 
opposite shore. Finally we came nearer and nearer to the mouth 
of the river. As we were drifting near our journey's end, the river 
widened. The first alligators we heard was as I was sleeping, and 
Tinimons woke me up, as he said he heard the roaring lions in the 
woods, but it was a large alligator who was growling loudly, and it 
frightened him so that he would not stay in the rear of the canoe 
and steer; I had to take his place, and under no circumstances could 
I prevail upon him to take this place again, telling him that there 
was no danger. Finally the wind made the surface of the river so 
dangerous that we were compelled to seek the shore and land. 

As the morning's gre}' dawn appeared, we found we had landed 
on a plantation. Above us was an orange tree; we picked oranges 
from it but they were sour, not sweet. My comrades were afraid 
that we would be captured, but I ])roposed that we explore. To our 



THE CAPTURE AJSTU ESCAPE OF HENRY FEUERBACH. 115 

surprise, we found a fine plantation ; none on it but a few old 
grizzled unserviceable negroes, none of whom could speak good Eng- 
lish. They had been brought from Africa late in life, and never 
learned much English. They did their talking to us mostl}^ by 
signs ; as they told me by signs and pointing to the sky, that when 
the sun was so bright the superintendent would come. They had 
honey plenty, and fixed up a good meal for us. Long after the 
war, in reading a book of her Southern life by " Fanny Kemble 
Butler," I found that this was the plantation where she had spent a 
part of her married life with her husband, Colonel Butler, I agree 
with her in all she says of this plantation. Eice fields are numer- 
ous from here to the coast. Opposite is the old town of Darien, 
which is one of the oldest settled towns on the Southern coast, so 
Bancroft says. It was settled with Scotch in 1640, or about that 
time. The river here divides, one arm running to St. Fernando, the 
other passed Darien, out at Doboy Inlet or Altamaha Sound. Infor- 
mation from the darkies we could not get, as they could not speak 
English, so about eleven o'clock we were determined to find out 
which way we had to go to get to our nearest blockading steamer. 
Here is where I committed the only error of our whole trip, for 
under my advice we rowed up to an old sawmill below Darien, in 
place of keeping on the river where we were unobserved. But I 
was the captain, on we paddled, struck the shore by the mill. Out 
stepped two partisan rangers, so they called themselves, fully armed 
with Sharps' carbmes. Timmons and Bacon looked at me as much 
as to say we are again prisoners. 

All our long journey was in vain ; we would be brought back 
to Macon, or likely shot, as had been the case with hundreds before 
us, but I did not think that. The Rebels asked where we were from. 
I told them Butler's plantation, which they could see some three 
miles across. The pickets went to one side to talk together ; that gave 
Timmons and me a chance to consult. We agreed, that under no cir- 
cumstances would we be taken prisoners without a desperate struggle. 
I told Timmons to watch me closely, and if I did not succeed, that 
he should help me ; they returned, and wanted us to go as prisoners 
to their camp with them, some three miles away. I talked them 
out of that, by telling them we were barefooted and could not walk 
over the ground as it was full of thistles. They wanted to know what 
we were doing on Butler's plantation. I told them we were old 
overseers, and were spending a few days on the old place a fishing, 
on furloughs which we had left there, and that if thev would give 



116 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST. 

US a chance, or go with iis, we would show them, so that they could 
see we were old Confederate soldiers ; that we belonged to the 
Twelfth Georgia Infantry : had been fightino- the " Yanks " and had 
killed numbers of them; told them what battles we had been in, 
how brave and great we were. I could see their eyes sparkle. I did 
not forget to tell them, we thought in about six months the war 
would be over, as England would help us, then we would gain our 
independence. I think I used all the eloquent conversational powers 
I possessed to charm them (and those who know me will credit me 
with some powers in that direction). While I was entertaining them, 
Timmons picked up a piece of iron about one foot long and three 
inches wide, which he hid up his shirt sleeve, ready for service if 
need be. I told the Rebels that one of them should stay and guard 
us, as we had on nothing but pants, shirt and hat, not even shoes, 
and under no circumstances could we harm them, as they had the 
best of arms ; and for the other one, to go quickly to camp, bring 
their Lieutenant along, and him we would satisfy that we were 
Johnnies by taking him over to the plantation and showing them our 
furloughs. They thought that an excellent idea, and locked our canoe. 
Off he went as fast as his horse could carry him, while I had his 
partner take me up on the run of the 'mill, where all the sawing 
was done ; on top we could look all over the country, for it is all 
level and the tide overflows it. I asked him all about how each arm 
of the river ran, and how far it was to our gunboats, which he told 
me with childish glee, and much more information that we did not 
want, but which was very valuable. 

Timmons was behind us a few feet standing: with his iron reaciv 
to do his part if required. I looked at the Confederate time and 
again ; he held his carbine in both hands partly resting on his knees ; 
my heart was beating with anxiety ; the desperate deed had to be 
done; it was man to man. With one quick jump I snatched his 
gun from him, he halloed and ran. I cocked the carbine and told 
him to stand or I would shoot him. He did so, and slowly got down 
the slide, on which we went up. When on the ground, he told me or 
begged me not to kill him; that he told his partner his suspicion 
was that we were "Yanks," and now he was sure of it ; I told him 
that he was right, but that my talk had thrown them off their 
guard. We took all his tobacco, for we had none for over a inontb, 
and tobacco to us was worth more than gold just then. I made 
him get on his knees and swear that under no circumstances would 
he tell who we were or where we were going or anything about us, 
when his partner and the officer came back. 



THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE OF HENRY FEUERBACH. 117 

"We promised we would not hurt a hair of his head. He swore 
like an old professional. Bacon broke the lock and chain with the 
ax, which let the canoe free. I took all the ammunition he had, 
threw it in the river, took the load out of his carbine and told him 
I would give it back; that he should tell them we had hunted for 
our passes and found them, and that he let us go. Off we started 
and paddled as hard as our plivsical strength would allow ; the sun 
seemed fearful hot. 

"When looking with my memor}^ back to that September month, 
in 1862, my mind brings the occasion before me as vivid as the day 
it took place, twenty-six years ago. Still we kept on, rounded a 
sharp bend in the river from where we could not be seen. After that 
I tookTimmons' advice. We pulled our canoe in the high canebrake, 
as the tide was low, awav from the river so none could see us ; for 
Timmons said they would surely come after us, which ])roved to be 
the case. About nine o'clock that evenmg we could hear the sound 
of rowing coming nearer and nearer. "We felt safe, for we knew that 
from the river they could not see us, unless they came on the edge 
of the canebrake with torches, for there was no moon to light up 
the scene, and if there had been a moon, we had crawled out of sight, 
too far for any one to see us even m daylight in a 3'awl, After 
they passed on down, I thought we had better get out and start for 
the gunboat, as the tide was at its highest. Timmons said : '• No, 
they have gone down to look for us and will not find us, so they 
will come back, and we must not leave until they return." Such 
proved to be the case, for in about two hours we again heard the 
rowing, at first gentle, but as they came nearer, louder and louder until 
they passed out of hearing. We could hear them talk as they passed by. 
Knowing that our time had come, we pulled our canoe through the 
canebrake into the river, it beinsf then about one o'clock. As we 
floated along, we struck upon a riff or shoal of fish. They were so 
thick that by the bottom of our canoe striking them many jumped 
inside. Finally we thouo-ht it was near mornino-, and we felt a 
sense of knowledge that we were nearing the mouth of the Alta- 
maha River ; so in the darkness, on the left bank, we landed at an 
old warehouse with a lot of one-story houses in the rear. Not a dog 
barked at our coming; we thought not a soul was near. The first 
door I came to, with Timmons and Bacon by me, with such weapons 
as we had for use in case of danger, I knocked at the door. A voice 
inside answered, " Who are you ? " I said " friends." A light was 
made, the door was opened, the man looked at us with surprise. "We 



118 THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE AVEST. 

watched every movement of his body as we went in the room ; he 
had been fast asleep. He asked us were we not the " Yanks " who 
had made our escape from the Eebels that day ; we tokl him yes. 
Then lie told us he was from New York, and that we could trust 
him ; that away from the Eebels he was a strong Union man, but 
that he was in their country or power, and had to keep a very close 
mouth ; that he was one of the men who were in the large skiff or 
yawl after us ; that there were six of them, heavily armed and deter- 
mined to capture us, and that it would have fared badly with us if 
they had caught us, as the pickets at Darien were partisan 
rangers, or in other words guerrillas. He related how bad they felt 
in not being able to capture us, as they knew we had not or could 
not pass out of the river without him seeing us, as he acted as a spy 
for them. Then he told us to get away from his place as quick as 
possible, for if the Rebels saw us at his place his life would not be 
safe thereafter. He gave us some corn bread and a large china 
meat-dish full of cooked bacon. In gettino- into our canoe the bank 
was so slippery that I fell down and broke the dish. I picked up 
the meat and bid our loyal J^ew Yorker, their Rebel spy, now 
strongly reconstructed back in the Union, good bye. Daylight was 
fast making its appearance, the mouth of the river was before us, the 
gunboat " Western World " lay in Doboy Inlet near the light-house. 

When w^e again saw the " star-spangled banner " waving from 
her mast-head, our hearts were so full of joy that we would take our 
turns in standing up in our narrow canoe and wave our old hats and 
halloo with might and strength. The " Western World " let down a 
cutter filled with armed marines and came to us, wdiich was a bless- 
ing, for the waves were so high that our frail craft would not stand 
it. They took us on board and asked us if we were not escaped Con- 
federates ; as they saw us in the distance they expected we were 
making our escape from them. I told the Captain who we were, and 
all about our trip. We w^ere kindly treated, and those who were 
aboard will remember the tall voung: soldier with sandv hair 
and blue eyes, who wanted to take them up to Darien and whip 
those partisan rangers, whom the Captain always took for an 
escaped Confederate officer, and who was no other than the writer 
of this sketch. 

A few" words about those who made their escape with me on 
that trip : 

Robert Timmons w^as a member of an Indiana regiment, the 
Thirty-fourth, I think, a splendid, brave man, whom you could 



THE CAPTURE AND ESCAPE ON HENRY FEUEEBACH. 119 

only frighten with alligators, wild beasts or ghosts ; he had been a 
raftsman on the Upper Mississippi, and who was just the man for 
such a trip. I have never heard from him since we parted at New 
York, each to go to his regiment. Alvin Q. Bacon was killed at the 
charge, on May 22, 1863, at Yicksburg ; a good, kind soul, but during 
the trip had been of little service, as he was mostly sick from the 
imprisonment at Macon. He was a member of the Fourteenth Illi- 
nois Infantry. A few days before he helped charge the works at 
Yicksburg, where he was killed, he came to see me in our camp by 
Butler's Canal, opposite the city. He had his pockets full of candy 
and oranges, and was as glad to see me as if I were to be his lover 
and companion friend forever. 

Your Comrade, 

Henry Federbach. 



Part II. 



THE 



TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI INFANTRY, 



|iT has been difficult to find an^'one that knows accu- 
rately concerning the earliest organization of those 
— who served in the Twenty-fifth Missouri Infantry, 
but according to the official records : 

"This Regiment was first organized in June, 
1861, from the Home Guard Battalions of Major 
Peabody, Major Yan Horn and Major Berry, and 
was then known as the Thirteenth Regiment 
Infantry Missouri Volunteers. It was re-orgunized in the fall of 
1861, and designated the Twenty-dfth Regiment of Infantry Mis- 
souri Volunteers." 

The records do not show what portion of the Regiment belonged 
to Major Berry, his full name or what became of him. It is certain 
that Major Berry did not serve as an officer after the union of the 
three Battalions, either in this Regiment or any other Missouri 




regiment. 



VAN HORN'S BATTALION. 



R. T. Van Horn, Major; Joshua Thone, Surgeon. Company 
A — Captain William Von Daun; Lieutenants, Fredrick Loos and 
Fredrick Klinger. Company B — Captain William Millar; Lieuten- 
ants Daniel Cahill and I^avid O'Neil. Company C — Geo. C. Bing- 
ham, Captain; Henry Spears, First Lieutenant ; Theodore S. Case, 
Second Lieutenant. This Battalion consisted of three companies 
of Infantry, and was organized by authority of Brigadier'-General 
Nathaniel Lyon, in the month of May,1861. On the lOth of June, 1861, 
Captain W. E. Prince, in command of two companies of Regular 
Infantry, a squadron of Cavalry, with one twelve-jiounder howitzer, 
landed and took possession of Kansas City. Immediately after^this, 








^M-'' 



ROBERT T. VAN HORN, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ™'5th MO. 





JOHN T. BERGHOFF, SURG. 25th MO. 



COL. CHESTER HARDING, 25th MO. 



VAN horn's battalion. 121 

this Battalion was organized, armetl, equipped and mustered into the 
United States service for three years, b}^ Captain A. F. Bond, U.S.A., 
June 24, 1861. On the 18th of July, 1861, Major Van Horn received 
orders to take two of the companies of this Battalion and march to 
the relief of Colonel Xugent, who was threatened with a superior 
force at Austin, Cass county, Missouri. On the 19th inst., while 
camped on Smith's farm, five miles north of Harrison ville, in Cass 
county, he was attacked by a large force of Rebels, under a Colonel 
Duncan, and after a very spirited fight of about two hours, mostly 
skirmishing, the Rebels withdrew, with a reported loss of fourteen 
killed and wounded; the Union loss was one killed. Breaking up 
camp in the night, the Rebels being in strong force at Harrisonville, 
and hourly increasing, he i^y a night march succeeded (after losing 
most of their subsistence in crossing Grand River, which was over 
its banks) in reaching camp, on the State line, near Jonesville. 
Here they were joined by reinforcements from Kansas, under 
Colonel Weer, and by the command of Colonel Nugent, the united 
forces then marched on Harrisonville, which, after a short engage- 
ment, was captured, and the entire Rebel force broken up and scat- 
tered, when the expedition returned to Kansas City. In the early 
part of September, 1861, the Rebels, under Colonel Roult and others, 
to the number of two thousand, were encamped at Blue Springs and 
near Lone Jack, with the intention of attacking Kansas Citv. 
Colonel Peabody, wnth the Thirteenth Missouri Volunteers, was or- 
dered from St. Joseph to reinforce Major Van Horn, and arrived 
at Kansas City about Se])tember 1st, As soon as his arrival was 
known, the Rebel forces broke up camp and marched to Lexington 
to attack that post. Learning this. Colonel Peabody, with his com- 
mand, joined by Major Van Horn, with two companies, B and C, 
took steamer for Lexington, arriving there in time to relieve the 
garrison. This was the beginning of the operations which ended 
finally in the surrender of the entire force under Colonel Mulligan 
to Sterling Price, September 21, 1861. Through the entire fifteen 
days the Battalion was constantly on active dut}^ ; was part of the 
force which had the severe fight in the lane, on the 12th, four 
companies, under Major Van Horn, meeting and engaging the whole 
of Price's force, in the severest fight of the siege. Companies B 
and C were respectively commanded by Captain Miller and Lieu- 
tenant Spears, and both officers and men behaved with distinguished 
braverv. On the 19th Colonel Peabodv was wounded, and the 
command of the whole devolved upon Major Van Horn, who con- 



122 THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI INFANTRY. 

tinned in command nntil he was wounded and taken to the hospital, 
about two honrs before the surrender. After the exchange of prison- 
ers, in December, Colonel Peabody's Regiment and Van Horn's Bat- 
talion were consolidated, and then formed the Twenty-fifth Regiment 
Missouri Infantry Volunteers, until in 1S64, when it was again con- 
solidated with the First Missouri Eno-ineers, closing their service with 
the close of the war. Thus they commenced their organization 
under the brave Lyon, and were mustered out at the close of the 
Rebellion. 

The Thirteenth Missouri Infantry, so far as this title applies to 
Colonel Peabody's command, never existed as a completed organiza- 
tion. There was at that time no Governor in Missouri — Governor 
Jackson having joined the Rebellion — and all troops had to be raised 
under special orders of either the War Department or some army 
officer. Peabody's and Van Horn's commands were authorized by 
General Lyon, in the same order and at the same time. Peabody 
soon after made the effort to increase his battalion to a regiment, to 
be called the Thirteenth, but before it had attained completion the sur- 
render at Lexington stopped everything, and the number " 13 " was 
taken by another organization. That is the true status of the 
Thirteenth as connected with Colonel Peabod\^'s name. Its history, 
up to the siege of Lexington, is thus briefly given in the report of 
the Adjutant-General of Missouri for 1866 on page 206 : " The Regi- 
ment was emploved in guarding a portion of the line of the Hanni- 
bal & St. Joseph Railroad and upon garrison duty, until it was 
ordered to Lexington, in the latter part of August. Colonel Mulli- 
gan, who commanded at Lexington, surrendered the post to General 
Sterling Price on the 20th of September, 1861, who paroled the 
officers of the Thirteenth, and released the men upon their oaths. 
Exchanges were subsequently effected, and the Regiment was 
re-organized as the Twenty-fifth, with Everett Peabody as Colonel, 
Robert T. Van Horn as Lieutenant-Colo'nel, and James E. Powell 
as Major. In March, 1862, the Regiment was sent to General Grant, 
at Pittsburg Landing, and was brigaded in McKean's Brigade, 
Prentiss' Division. It participated in the battle of Shiloh, losing very 
heaA'ily in killed and wounded ; among the former were the Col- 
onel and Major. Captain Frederick C. Nichols was subsequently 
promoted to the Majorit}^, and Chester Harding, Jr., was appointed 
Colonel. 

" In the advance upon Corinth, the Regiment was constantly 
upon picket duty, or engaged in the construction of earthworks. 



LEXINGTON, BY MAJOR VAN HORN. 123 

During the summer of 1862 the Regiment constructed a chain of 
forts south and west of Corinth. It was ordered to Missouri for the 
pui-pose of recruiting, in September, 1S62, but, on its arrival at St. 
Louis, was sent to Pilot Knob; thence to Patterson, where it was 
assigned to Brigadier-General J. W. Davidson, and became part of 
the Arni}^ of Southeast Missouri. 

"It remained with this army during the winter campaign. 
Upon returning to Iron Mountain, in March, 1863, it was ordered to 
St. Joseph, Missouri, and was actively employed by detachments in 
clearing the district of Xorthwest Missouri from bushwhackers 
until June, when it was sent to New Madrid, where it reconstructed 
the fortifications, which had been dismantled, and constituted the 
garrison of the post." 

LEXINGTON, BY MAJOR VAN HORN. 

On our arrival at Lexington, we marched at once to Warrens- 
burg to relieve Colonel Grover at that place, and here we met the 
advance of General Price's whole army. Falling back to Lexington 
we found there the command of Colonel Mulligan. On comparing 
dates of commission, Colonel Mulligan w^as found to rank Colonel 
Peabody a very few days, and was in consequence recognized as in 
chief command. The fighting opened on the 12th, and the sur- 
render occurred on the 21st. The troops engaged, besides the com- 
mands of Colonel Peabodv and mv own, were frag-ments of reo-i- 
ments commanded by Colonel Grover and Colonel White, of Mis- 
souri. Mulligan's Regiment from Chicago, and Marshall's First 
Illinois Cavalry, the hitter not yet armed with carbines, having only 
sabres and old-style holster pistols and numbered in all only a little 
over 2,700 men. Price's army was over 25,000 of all arms. All 
Western Missouri flocked to him with such arms as thev could get, 
and one of his staff officers with whom I was acquainted told me 
that the morning after the surrender they fed 40,000 people, or 
issued rations to that number. Of course these were not all armed 
as soldiers, but the}^ had, most of them, something to shoot with. 

During the siege many noted acts of bravery occurred. One 
of the most daring things of the war Avas the re-taking of the hos- 
pital, a large brick dwelling about a hundred yards from our works. 
The Rebels got possession of it, and as it commanded the inside of 
our breastworks they were picking off our men rapidly. The task of 
retaking it was confided to Captain Schmitz, Company B, of Colonel 



124 THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI IjNFANTKY. 

Peabody's commaiul, from St. Joseph, Missouri, which was composed 
entirely of Germans; and Captain Gleason's Compan\', of Mulli- 
gan's command, from Chicago, and composed of Irishmen. They 
chargeel the whole distance over open ground, exposed to a heavy 
fire from the hospital roof and windows, and from supports outside, 
but in less time than it takes to write it, the brave fellows had driven 
the Rebels from the building with the bayonet. It was one of the 
most gallant and desperate things I saw during the war, and ought 
to be preserved in story. 

After Lexington, General Fremont ordered the muster out of 
all Missouri troops engaged and captured. After the exchange I 
went to Washington, and laid the matter before the Adjutant- 
General of the Army, and General McClelland lescinded the order 
and the Twentv-fifth was tiien oro-anized. 

THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI IN THE BATTLE OF 

SHILOH. 

Lieutenant James M. Newhard says that ^* the part taken by the 
Twenty-fifth Missouri in the battle of Shiloh has never been cor- 
rectly written ; tliat Company B, Captain Schmidt; Company H, 
Captain Dill, and Company E, Captain Evans, went out before day- 
light on Sunday morning, April 6th, under command of our noble 
little Major Powell. We quietly passed through our single line of 
pickets a short distance in front of our camp guard, drove in John- 
ston's pickets, and fell onto his whole army about a mile and a half 
from our camp. They had laid on their arms during the night, 
readv to attack us first in the mornino-, 

"We sounded their reveille by opening up fire on them, and it 
was not many minutes before that whole army of 65,000 men were 
in motion and the ' woods were full of them.' We stood long- enouo-h 
for most of the men to use up their forty rounds of ammunition, 
which, with the hot vollevs thev turned loose on us, g-ave good and 
convincing warning to our slumbering army to 'fall in' on short 
notice. Even our skeptical General Prentiss shook himself out of 
his blankets when lie heard the racket, and was shortly convinced 
that Colonel Peabodv was right when he said the evening- before 
that he believed Johnston was moving on us and would likely attack 
in the morning, which at that time Prentiss would not listen to. 

" Colonel Peabodv, being so firm in this belief, did not go to 
sleep at all that night, and after mature deliberation decided to do 



THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI IN THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 125 

as above stated — attack, and thus give the alarm to those in our 
rear, so that they could turn out and make some resistance to the 
overwhehning force, and not be captured or attacked in their 
quarters. This move seemed to be the only way to convince Gen- 
eral Prentiss that there was an army between us and Corinth. 

" General Prentiss commanded our Division and Colonel Peabody 
our Brigade — Sixth Division, First Brigade. Our Division was on 
the outer line to the left, and rear of Shiloh Church ; Uncle Billy 
Sherman's on our right; hence we were the first to take the medi- 
cine, and we got it in heavy doses. Our Kegiment and Divis- 
ion were badlv handled from the start. Colonel Peabodv was 
killed when our first line was broken, and we were driven back 
through our camp. When we regained our. camp on Monday, after 
having driven the enemy back over our ground, we found Colonel 
Peabody lying on the line of the officers' tents, and near the tent 
where he had passed the night before. It was too bad that he Avas 
not allowed to live and get the credit he was entitled to, as it is 
beyond the question of a doubt that the action betook that morning 
in opening fight and giving the alarm to the troops in the rear in 
time to prepare for the attack, was what enabled our army to make 
the resistance it did, and hold out until Buell and Nelson came to 
the relief. 

"All this he did on his own responsibilit}^ General Grant was 
still at Headquarters at Savannah, and General Prentiss could not be 
convinced or made to believe as Peabody did, nor could he be 
persuaded to make any preparations for an attack. 

" The rest of that stubborn-fought battle from this, the com- 
mencement, to the finish, has been written up hundreds of times, bv 
as many different writers, each from his own standpoint. I only want 
to get this part of the service of the Twenty-fifth Missouri and its gal- 
lant and wide awake commander properly on record with the credit 
due. After we woke up Johnston's arm}^ and were falling back to 
camp, we met Colonel Moore, of the Twenty-first Missouri, with half 
of his Regiment. He would not believe that it was Johnston's whole 
army; said: ' It was only a skirmishing party;' and insisted on our 
Major ' facing about with his command, and w^e would finish them 
up in no time.' It was not long until he found out what we already 
knew. He filed us off to the left, into a cotton-field near at hand, 
and brougiit us to a front. B}^ this time the JoJtnnies were up to 
the fence in our front; a very formidable looking 'skirmishino- 
party.' "We made a fine target for them, which they seemed to 



126 THE TWENTY -FIFTH MISSOURI INFANTRY. 

fully realize. About the first volley Colonel Moore himself was a 
recipient of their favor by way of a shot in one of his legs (which 
was afterward amputated). Our Major then took command, and 
ordered us to cease firing and marched us at a double quick back to 
the Division line, which by this time had formed ready for the 
attack, which shortly followed. 

"This was the way the battle of Shiloh began; by Colonel Pea- 
body and three companies of his Kegiment, the Twenty-fifth Missouri. 

" Major Powell, Captain Evans and myself were with Colonel 
Peabody from about twelve o'clock that Saturday night until we 
went out in front ; Colonel Peabody informed me that as the two 
Lieutenants of my Company (E) were at St. Louis, I should take the 
position (though only Orderly Sergeant at the time) of Acting Lieu- 
tenant, as the Company needed another officer. When we went 
into camp the Captain and I tented together. The Colonel would 
often come to our quarters and sto]) for an hour or so and make him- 
self at home with us. On this Saturday night, before the battle, he 
came to our tent, about twelve o'clock, and woke us up, saying, he 
' had not slept yet, and did not intend to, as he had business to 
attend to, hoping it would be no intrusion to sit up with us for a 
while.' We made him easy on that score, made a light, dressed, 
took out some cigars, smoked and talked. 

" He told then that he ' thought we were lying in the face of a 
powerful enemy, in a very careless and unguarded position, liable 
to be surprised and overw^helmed at any time. He had spoken to 
General Prentiss about it the evening before, and urged that instead 
of lying idle, as we were at that time, we ought to put ourselves in 
some condition to resist an attack, in case one should be made by 
Johnston, and which was liable to happen at any time. He had 
asked for one of the batteries that were in park to be put in posi- 
tion in front of our Kegiment, and had urged the necessity of being 
better prepared for defense. General Prentiss, instead of giving it 
the consideration due, hooted at the idea of Johnston attacking us. 
The Colonel told us he believed they were moving on us, and that 
if we did not look out, we might be taken by surprise almost any 
time. He said that he did not intend to be taken by surprise him- 
self ; that he would act upon his own responsibihty and judgment. 
He asked me to call Major Powell up and ask him to come to our 

quarters.' 

" Lieutenant-Colonel Van Horn was not with us at this time, he 
was still disabled bv a wound received at Lexington. The Colonel 



THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI IN THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 127 

told the Major his views and plans, and directed him to go about 
three o'clock to Brigade guard Headquarters, take a squad and go in 
front beyond the pickets and reconnoitre. We had only one line of 
pickets out about one-fourth mile in front. 

"The Major returned in about an hour and reported that he had 
passed our pickets, and about a mile further on came to a strono- 
line of Eebel pickets; that, in his opinion, a strong force was camped 
in their rear. The Colonel said he was satisfied it was Johnston's 
army, and that they would move forward and attack us earlv in 
in the morning; 'but,' he said, 'they shall not surprise us; there is 
but one thing for me to do ; that is, to send a small force out and 
attack them, and so give the alarm to our army. I can not say any- 
thing more to General Prentiss, but he will soon see how near I 
was right. I must do this upon my own responsibility, but I will 
not live to receive censure or credit for doing so.' He then asked 
me to wake up Captain Schmidt, of Compaii}^ B, and Captain Dill, 
of Company H, to come to our tent. When they reported he told 
them to get up their companies asquietl}^ and as quickly as possible, 
and see that each man had at least forty rounds in his box direct- 
ing me to turn out our Company (E), also. In a very short time the 
three companies were ready, and, under Major Powell, struck the 
pickets at break of day. 

"The Union army had not yet shaken the leaves off. The 
Colonel's instructions to tlie Major were to ' drive in the guard and 
open up on the reserve, develop the force, hold the ground as long 
as possible and then fall back to the command, which was done. The 
Colonel shook hands with us as we started out to the front, bade us 
good-bye, stating he would be killed that day. A firn.i presentiment 
which proved too true ; he was killed about two hours from that 
time, by a gunshot wound in the head. We buried him, the best we 
could, in a coffin made from boxes at the Quartermaster's, at sun- 
down on Tuesday after the battle. His remains were placed in a 
metallic casket by his friends about three weeks later and removed 
to Boston, Massachusetts. 

" This is as true an account of the opening of the battle of 
Shiloh as can be given by any living man, and shows what the 
Twenty-fifth Missouri did at that time, and the great good it accom- 
plished, through the clear-headed vigilance of .its noble and self- 
sacrificing Colonel." James M. Newhaed. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert T. Van Horn says of Colonel Pea- 
body: " He was a gallant officer, and one of the most accomplished 



128 THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI INFANTRY, 

gentlemen that the service knew. I saw his tablet in Memorial Hall, 
Harvard College ; he was a graduate of that institution." 

Captain Joseph Thompson says of him : " He was possessed 
of the finest scholarly attainments, reading readily and speaking 
fluently the German, French and Spanish languages. He was a 
noted mathematician, a ripe scholar and a true and polished gentle- 
man ; of fine personal appearance, pleasing address and commanding- 
presence. He promised the attainment of high work in the service 
of his country." 

From Volume X, Part 1, Rebellion Records : 

No. 82. 
Rejiort of Lieutencmt- Colonel Robert T. Van Horn, Twenty -fifth Missouri Infantry. 

Headquarters Twenty-fifth Missouri Volunteers, ') 

First Brigade, Sixth Division, > 

Army of West Tennessee. ) 

Near Pittsburg Landing, April 9, 1862. 

Captain : I have the honor herewith to submit a report of the part taken by 
the Regiment under my command in the battles of the 6th and 7th instant. The 
Regiment occupied the right of the First Brigade, commanded by Colonel Pea- 
body, Acting Brigadier-General, and had the honor of opening the fight on the 
6th, the attack being made on its front at 3 o'clock in the morning. By order 
of the Acting Brigadier-General, three companies — Captains Schmitz, Company 
B; Eveans, Company E; Dill, Company H — under Major Powell, were dispatched 
to engage the enemy's advance, which was successfully done until re-enforced by 
the Twenty-first Missouri, under Colonel Moore. The fighting now became gen- 
eral and heavy, and I was ordered to support with the whole Regiment. The 
enemy had now reached within the distance of half a mile of the encampment, 
where they were checked and held until near 7 o'clock, when our force fell back 
to the line of encampment, where another stand was made. The fighting was very 
severe until 8 o'clock, Avhen we were compelled to fall back still farther behind 
our encampments on the Division, which had by this time formed in line of battle 
on an elevation in our rear. My Regiment had by this time become badly cut up, 
but they rallied and took position on the right of the Twelfth Michigan, with the 
loss of several of my most valuable officers. The fighting now became most deter- 
mined, and continued with little intermission for three hours. The enemy, being 
thrice repulsed, finally moved to our left. 

It was in this part of the engagement that Major James E. Powell, a most 
valuable officer and brave soldier, fell mortally wounded, and Sergeant Matthew 
Euler, color-bearer, was killed clinging to the staff until it had to be disengaged 
from his grasp by Sergeant Simmons, who took his place. My command was after 
this detached to Colonel Hildebrand, Acting Brigadier-General, where it remained 
without taking any decisive part in the engagement for the remainder of the day. 

On the 7th I was placed with the First Missouri Battery near the river, 
except one company, under Captain "William Millar, who was attached to the 
Seventh Iowa (Colonel Crocker), where, I am gratified to state, this brave officer 
rendered efficient service. 



THE CAPTURE OF SERGEANT BERGHOFF. 129 

Captains Wade, Millar and Donnelly, and Lieutenants Bradshaw, Newberry 
John H. Miller and Singleton, deserved special mention for bravery displayed in 
the most trying periods of the fight; but where so many did well it is difficult to 
discriminate. I mention these as coming particularly under my own observation 
All will bear testimony to the distinguished bravery of Major James E Powell 
who tell in the hottest of the battle, cheering on his men. He was an officer in 
the Regular Army. 

I have to report Surgeon John T. Berghoff as missing, but whether a pris- 
oner or not It IS impossible to say, as he has been in camp once since the battle 
He was at the hospital in front on yesterday, but supposed to be cut off bv Rebel 
pickets. •' 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

R. T. Van Horn, 
Lieutenant- Colonel, Commanding Twenty -fifth Missouri Volunteers. 
Captain Henry Binmore, 
Assistant Adjutant- General, Sixth Divison, Army of West Tennessee. 

THE CAPTUEE OF SURGEON" BERGHOFF. 

It afterward transpired that Dr. Berghoff, Surgeon of the 
Twenty-fifth, whose whereabouts were unknown for a time after 
the battle of Shiloh, was a prisoner in Cormtli, caring for our 
own wounded, under the following agreement : 

General Hospital of the First Army Corps ) 
In the Field, April the 10th, 1862. ' f 
This convention made and entered into this day between the undersi-ned 
representing the two Governments, witnesseth, that as there are many wou°nded 
men belonging to each party unable to be removed, they shall remain in hospital 
here, and be attended by their respective Surgeons and Hospital Attendants It 
IS further agreed that such Surgeons and Hospital Attendants and patients are to 
be respected by both armies, and are not to be held as prisoners of war or other 
wise, but are to be removed without hindrance or molestation, at their own will 
and convenience. It is further agreed that the wounded, Surgeons and Attend- 
ants are to be subsisted mutually, with such supplies as can be furnished It is 
further agreed that the private property of these is to be respected by both 

Signed in duplicate — 

S. M. D. Lyle, 
Surgeon G. S. A., Medical Director of the First Corps, Army of the Mississippi. 

John T. Berghoff, 
Approved- Surgean First Brigade, Sixth Division, U. S. A. 

Joseph Wheeler, 
Colonel Nineteenth Alabama Regiment, Commanding Rear Guard. ' 

April 10, 1863. 
As the wounded referred to within and now within my lines can not be 
removed without endangering their lives, I have allowed them to remain in 



130 THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI INFANTRY. 

hospital here, and do hereby approve this agreement made by the Surgeons of the 
respective parties. 

John C. Breckinridge, 
Brigadier Gen&ral Commanding Cor^federate Troops. 
Major-General Lewis Wallace, U. S. A. 

I certify that the foregoing agreement is a true copy of the original. 

F. M. ROSEGATE, 

Ccmmander of Custer Post, G. A. B., St. Joseph, Missouri. 
December 17, 1888. 
There were in said hospital three Surgeons, four Hospital 
Attendants and fifty-six wounded belonging to the United States 
Army, in charge of Surgeon J. T. Berghoff, which, through his man- 
agement, were liberated, and not held as prisoners. 

Colonel Van Horn's recollection of the operations of the Twenty- 
fifth Missouri is that, in March, 1S62, the Kegiment was sent to General 
Grant, at Pittsburg Landing, and was assigned to Prentiss' com- 
mand, forming the extreme right of his Division. In the battle of 
Shiloh, Colonel Peabody was in command of the Brigade and Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Van Horn commanded the Regiment. The loss was 
heavy in killed and wounded. Among the killed were Colonel Pea- 
body, Major Powell, Captain C. A. Wade, Company C, and Lieu- 
tenants John J.Bramble, Company D, and S. M. Penfield, Company 
H. It is a fact, now settled by the record, that Prentiss' Division 
was the first attacked, and the Brigade commanded by Colonel Pea- 
body the first engaged in the battle of Shiloh, and the Twenty-fifth 
first of all was engaged with the enemy's advance as early as day- 
light on the 6th of April. The facts are these: 

'' On Saturday evening General Prentiss reviewed his Division 
in an old field in front of the line of encampment. Major Powell, 
who was a Regular Army officer, was field officer of the day, and did 
not take part in the review. After the review was over he reported 
to Colonel Peabody, that during the review, while out in the woods 
in front, he had noticed a party of mounted men, too numerous and 
similarly mounted to be citizens, and they were not Union troops, 
and requested authority to make a reconnoissance to see what could 
be learned. He was directed to take two companies and do so. 
On his return he reported that he had gone a mile or more to the 
front to ' an old cotton field,' where he met some negroes who told 
him there had been a body of 200 Rebel Cavalry there in the after- 
noon. He was then directed, when the grand rounds were made at 
one o'clock in the morning to take four companies and station them 
out on the advanced i)icket line to await eventualities at daylight. 



THE CAPTURE OF SERGEANT BERGHOFF. 131 

,Tliis was done, and when daylight came they found themselves con 
fronted by the Eebel force and firing began. The Twenty -first Mis- 
souri was ordered out to support this advance, then the Twentv-fifth 
Twelfth Michigan, etc., till the whole line was engaged. This was 
the opening of the battle of Shiloh. Frederick Klinoler, Second 
Lieutenant of Company B, Twenty-fifth Missouri, was wounded at 
day dawn, the first man wounded in the battle. After the capture of 
the left wing of Prentiss' Division and of General Prentiss himself 

the remaining regiments were assigned to other bodies of troops 

the Twenty-fifth, holding the extreme right, was for the balance of 
the first day attached to Colonel Hildebrand's Ohio Reoiment till 
sundown, and then placed as support to the line of Artillery formed 
near the Tennessee River to check the Rebel advance — and remained 
on that duty during the night and succeeding day, which was with- 
out special incident. 

" In the advance on Corinth the Regiment made such an efficient 
record that it was, after possession of that place, entrusted with the 
construction of a series of earthworks or forts, south and west of 
Corinth, which constituted its defensive works in the battle at that 
place in the following October. In September the Reo-iment was 
ordered to report to General Logan, at Jackson, and was after sent 
to Missouri to recruit. But on arriving at St. Louis, was ordered to 
report to General Davidson, at Pilot Knob. From there it was 
ordered to Patterson, and became part of the Armv of Southeast 
Missouri, for the winter. In March, 1863, it was ordered to St 
Joseph, Missouri, to recruit, and for about three months while 
engaged in that work, did active duty, operating in detachments in 
clearing Northwest Missouri from bushwhackers. In June it was 
ordered to New Madrid, Missouri, where it reconstructed the fortifi- 
cations which had been dismantled, and formed the o-arrison of the 
Post till in November, when it was ordered to Columbus, Kentucky 
immediately preceding its consolidation with the Eno-ineer Reo-i- 
ment of the West. 

" During this time I had been but part of the time with the 
Regiment. In 1862, while at Corinth, I was elected to the Missouri 
Senate, and attended the session of that body in the winter of 
1862-3. After the Regiment went to New Madrid, I was ordered 
by General Schofield to report to General Thomas Ewino-, com- 
manding the District of the Border, with Headquarters atliansas 
City, during the execution of Order No. 11 — removing the disloyal 
population from the counties of Jackson, Cass and Bates — and 



132 THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOUKI INFANTRY. 

remained on that duty till the meeting of the Legislature in the win. 
ter of 1803-64, during which time the consolidation took place. I 
was in the fall of 1863 elected to Congress, previous to the consoli- 
dation. 

'' Tliis constitutes, as near as I can now recall, the history of the 
Twenty-fifth, from April 7, 1862, to December, 1863. 

" E. T. Van Horn." 

COMPANY L. 

This Company was raised principally in Central Missouri, by 
Captain J. D. Yoerster and Lieutenant John E. Hensler, in Septem- 
ber, 1861, as an Independent Company of Sappers and Miners. 

By Special Orders 'No. 43, Headquarters State of Missouri, 
March 18, 1862, this Company was consolidated with the Fifth 
Regiment Missouri Volunteers Infantry as Company I. 

By Special Orders No. 217, December 3, 1862, Headquarters 
State of Missouri, this Company was transferred to the Thirty- 
fifth Missouri Infantry Volunteers as Company I, Captain John E. 
Hensler. 

The Company was again transferred in December, 1863, this 
time to the Missouri Engineer Eegiment as Company L, Captain C. 
Lochbiler, Lieutenants Henry Hennings and MaxFraude; on consoli- 
dation with the Twenty-fifth Missouri it was transferred with Com- 
pany G to Company I, Captain Lochbiler. 



Part III. 



THE 



FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS 



THE CONSOLIDATION 'OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI 
AND THE ENGINEER REGIMENT OF THE WEST MIS- 
SOURI VOLUNTEERS AS THE FIRST REGIMENT 
OF ENGINEERS MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS. 




^IS" the 4th of February, 1864, the consolidation of 
the two Eegiments was effected, in pursuance of 
the foUowino- order, they having rendezvoused at 
Nashville, Tennessee, for that purpose : 



Headquarters Department of the Missouri, ^ 
St. Louis, Mo., December 28, 1863. \ 

SPECIAL ORDERS } 

. No . 355 . \ 

15. In accordance with Special Order No. 520, Current Series War Depart- 
ment, A. G. O., of November 23, the Twenty-fifth Missouri Vohinteers and the 
Regiment of Volunteer Engineers heretofore known as " Bissell's Engineer Regi- 
ment of the West," are hereby consolidated into a Regiment of Engineers, the 
niunerical designation of which will be fixed by his Excellency, the Governor of 
Missouri. All Officers of the two Regiments rendered supernumerary by the 
organization as herein announced will be honorably mustered out of the service, 
to date from the first day of January, 1864. All officers promoted in the new 
organization, above the positions held by them in their old Regiments, will, 
upon being duly commissioned by the Governor, be mustered out of the old 
grade and into the new. The pay, as Engineers, of that portion of the Reg- 
iment which has heretofore been Infantry, will commence on'the first day of the 

ling year. 

By command op Ma.tor-General Schofield: 

O. D. Greene, 
Assistant AdjiUant- Oeneral. 



134 THE FIRST MISSOUKI ENGINEERS. 

On the 4tli of Februar}^, as above stated, the two Ilegiment 
moved into camp together, and were afterward known only as the 
First Missouri Engineers. The followinf}: assignments of officers 
and men were announced: 

FIELD AND STAFF. 

Henry Flad, Colonel ; William Tweeddale, Lieutenant-Colonel ; 
Hamilton Dill, Fredrick C, Nichols, Eben M. Hill, Majors; John 
C. Book, Surgeon; Charles Knower and William A. Neal, Assistant 
Surgeons; Lieutenant-Colonel Van Horn, Quartermaster; J. D. Hen- 
derson, Surgeon; John T. Berghoff and Assistant Surgeon John 
Q. Eggleston, of the Twenty-fifth, Chaplains; Alpha Wright, of the 
Twenty-fifth, and L. E. LIunt, of the Engineers, going out, and Adju- 
tant Giseke, of the Twenty-fifth, promoted to Captain of Company 
L, First Missouri Engineers. 

Company A was composed of Companies C and D of the 
Twenty-fifth ; Captain, James Dunn ; Lieutenants, L. R. Lancaster, 
George G. Bayne and William Claxten ; Lieutenants Henry Carlisle 
and Timothy Darby retiring. 

Company B of Company C and part of K, Engineers; Captain, W. 
G. Patten ; Lieutenants, Lucien W. Coy, Daniel G. Parker and 
David Armstrong. 

Company C of Companies I and part of D, and K of Engineer 
Regiment ; Captain, G. B. Brackett ; Lieutenants, Eli Winegar, H. B. 
Hooker and Max Fraude. 

Company D of Companies H and part of K, Engineer Regiment ; 
Captain, Lisbon Odenbaugh; Lieutenants, John C. Besier, J. S. Cun- 
ningham and Soloman Goodrich. 

Company E of Company A and E, Engineer Regiment ; Captain? 
William Hill ; Lieutenants, Haynes E. Hudson, John McLaren and 
Porter J. Brooks ; Captain Randolph retiring. 

Company F of Companies F and part of D, Engineer Regiment : 
Captain, Thomas W. Bailey; Lieutenants, S. W. Mattis,M. D. Edinger 
and Alvah R. Prescott ; Captain N. W. Wilcox retiring. 

Company G of Companies E and K of the Twenty-fifth; Cap- 
tain, Benjamin F. Coleman ; Lieutenants, John P. Morton, Benjamin 
R. Tanner and Gustavus Salsman, 

Company H of Companies F and I, Twenty-fifth; Captain, Ben 
jamln F. Buzard ; Lieutenants, William W. Brown, William A. 
Morton and James M. Newhard; Captains Hawley and Thompson 
and Lieutenant Marcus Morton retii'ing. 



THE JOHNSONVILLE CAMPAIGN NASHVILLE TO JOHNSONVILLE. 135 

Company I of Companies G and L, Engineer Regiment ; Captain, 
Christian Lochbiler ; Lieutenants, A. D. Whitcomb, Antliony Kilp 
and Paulus Cast ; Captain Louis G. Werth and Lieutenant Henry 
Hennings retiring. 

Company K of parts of Companies A, B and K, Engineer 
Regiment; Captain, John E. Murphy; Lieutenants, Francis Tunica, 
H. M. Sumner and Frank Bras; Captain A. J. Merritt retiring. 

Company L of Companies B and G, Twenty-fifth ; Captain, Her- 
man Giseke ; Lieutenants, William K. Lyle, John Murphy and Ste- 
phen S. Brown ; Captain William Millar and Lieutenant George W. 
Shinn retiring. 

Company M of Companies A and H, Twenty-fifth; Captain, 
Oscar F. Storey ; Lieutenants, Addison N. Glenn, William E. Hight 
and Stephen T. Lucas ; Captain Robert C. Bradshaw and Lieutenant 
W, J. Hahn retiring. 

The Regimental non-commissioned staff is not entirely known, 
but John A. Points and William H. Ward were Quartermaster- 
Sergeants. Charles Dunsford, Ralph B. McClary and John S. Starr 
were Hospital Stewards. 

THE JOHNSONYILLE CAMPAIGN — KASHVILLE TO 

JOHNSONVILLE. 

There was considerable disappointment among the Sergeants. 
Some of them thought that the supernumeraries would be mustered 
out as the commissioned officers Avere, but it was held otherwise, 
and some of them had to return to the ranks. Sergeant William 
Yogel, of Company G (I), was made so despondent over it that he 
took his life the morning of the 4th of February, by shooting him- 
self through the head with his musket. 

Sunday, February 12, 1864, the whole Regiment, about twelve 
hundred men, were drawgi up in line for inspection. 

The 10th, details from the Companies were made for work on 
the Nashville fortifications. 

Thursday, IStli, the Regiment broke camp and marched ten 
miles out of Nashville in a southwest direction. 

19th, marched eighteen miles west. 

20th, marched eighteen miles — to about three miles west of 
Charlotte. 

21st, marched twelve miles. Third Battalion went into'camp 
at Station 57, nine miles east of Waverly, and the Second Battalion 
seven miles east of the same place. 



136 THE PIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

22d, First Battalion, with Headquarters, marched into Waverly, 
Tennessee, on the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, one com- 
pany going on seven miles further west to Johnsonville, on the 
Tennessee River, 

The 26th of February the small-pox broke out among the men 
and was quite serious for several months, some half dozen dying 
from the disease. 

March 3d there was a snow storm. Snow three inches deep on 
the night of the 6th, with a rain and sleet so heavy that the trees 
broke down with the weight of ice, and as the tents at Station 57 
were in the woods, the falling limbs crushed many of the tents and 
injured several of the sleeping men. Altogether it was very disa- 
greeable weather. 

March 2d and 3d details were sent to the river at Johnsonville, 
and to the farm of a Dr. Gross near there to operate a steam saw- 
mill. At this time rations ran short and the men were put on one- 
fourth allowance. Measles broke out, and cases of lung fever and 
severe colds were very frequent. The 15th there was another snow 
storm ; the weather remained cold for a week or more. 

The men, in the meantime, were kept busy building the rail- 
road, warehouses and side-tracks, and were assisted by a large force 
of mechanics and laborers in the employ of the U. S. Quartermaster 
Department. 

April 16th the railroad was completed from Johnsonville to 
Waverly, and an engine that had been brought up the river to 
Johnsonville ran over the track. On the Yth of May the railroad 
was finished through from Nashville to Johnsonville, and on the 
19th of May an excursion train brought Governor Andrew Johnson, 
with a number of distinguished guests, among whom was General 
Daniel E. Sickles. Both Governor Johnson and General Sickles 
made congratulatory speeches to the men. 

May 4th a detachment of ninety men from the First Battalion, 
under command of Captain Brackett, was sent out to hunt for forces 
of the enemy's cavalry, said to be hovering about. A team taken 
along got swamped in Tracy Creek, and the teamster was drowned. 
Captain Brackett, in describing this expedition, says of this and 
other incidents at and around Johnsonville: 

" We left Nashville, after the consolidation of the two Regiments, 
on the 18th of February, 1864, and marched to Box Mills, Tennes- 
see ; camped 23d, where Ave remained the rest of the month and the 
month of March, when we moved to Waverly, Tennessee. We were 




COLONEL EVERETT PEABODV, 35th MO. 





^^^::^^^^^=— y^.^:^ 



ASSISTANT SURGEON 25th MO. 



THE JOHNSONVILLE CAMPAIGN NASHVILLE TO JOHNSONVILLE. 1-37 

engaged in building the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, ware- 
houses and blockhouses. On the 20th of May the First Battalion 
moved to Section 51, and the Third Battalion was ordered to John- 
sonville, Tennessee, and I was placed in command of it, and also 
commander of the Post. "VVe finished the Nashville & Northwestern 
Railroad on the 10th of Ma}^ and the first train came over the line 
from Nashville on that day. While at Johnsonville the Thirteenth 
Regular Infantry (colored) reported to me for duty, and with the 
First Kansas Battery and two companies of Tennessee Cavalry and 
our Third Battalion, constituted the force at the Post. The men 
were engaged in building forts, warehouses, etc. 

BOTH PARTIES MISTAKEN. 

"While we were camped at Box's Mills, on the Nashville & 
Northwestern Railroad, which we were constructing from Nashville 
to the Tennessee River for the purpose of opening a shorter line of 
transportation than via Louisville, I received orders to go to the 
terminus of the road, which we named Johnsonville, and where 
Captain Coleman's Company was stationed, and superintend the 
landing of a locomotive and some cars from a steamer and barges. 
I made the trip on horseback, a distance of six or eight miles, going 
in the morning and returning at night daily. On one occasion, when 
I was returning, as I turned at right angles into a long lane, running 
across Flat Creek, fenced with rails on both sides, I saw two men 
about a quarter of a mile ahead dodge back into a fence corner out 
of sight. It was so near dark I could not distinguish their uniforms, 
and, as this was a place frequented by bushwhackers, I concluded that 
they belonged to that class of the Southern chivalry, and as there was 
no other way for me to reach camp but by passing them, I deter- 
mined to take my chance in the unequal contest, and give them the 
best I had, so after drawing my trusty six-shooter from the holster, 
and seeing that it was in good order, I ])roceeded cautiously on my 
way keeping a close watch on the place where they disappeared. 
As I neared the spot I heard the click of their guns as they cocked 
them. My revolver was firmly gras[)eil, and in readiness for the 
emergency. 

"The next moment they sprang from their ambush, but before 
any harm was done we recognized each other; tiiev were members 
of my Company who had slipped away from camp in search of 
game, and when they saw me enter the lane they mistook me for a 



138 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 



o 



gueri'illa, and, though not the kind of game they were looking for, 
concluded to take me in. After a hearty laugh over the mistake of 
both parties, and congratulating ourselves that this little affair had 
terminated no worse, we soon found our way to camp. 

• NO MISTAKE THIS TIME. 

"While in command of the Post of Johnsonville, which was 
garrisoned by the Third Battalion of our Regiment, one regiment of 
Colored Troops, the First Kansas Battery, and two companies of 
Tennessee Cavalry, we were greatly annoyed by bands of guerrillas 
which were made up of citizens living around us. 

" On one occasion, as some of our teamsters were riding along 
the road about a mile from camp, they were fired on by a band of 
three bushwhackers, from ambush, wounding one man and a mule. 
As soon as they reached camp and informed me of the affair, I 
started in pursuit with one company of Cavalry, but after a half- 
day's ride we returned to camp without having seen one of 
these outlaws ; but having learned that it was useless to continue 
this mode of warfare, we decided to change our tactics and use a 
little strateg}^ so I issued an order holding the citizens of the 
neighborhood responsible for all depredations by whomsoever com- 
mitted in the vicinity of the camp. 

" This had the desired effect, for soon after this I was awakened 
from my sleep one night by the voice of a citizen, who came to 
inform me that a band of guerrillas was in the neighborhood, led bv 
one Kodgers, who lived near by our camp. I immediately called 
out one compan}^ of our Battalion, and by previous arrangement with 
Captain Cronin, of the gunboat Key West, which lay in the river 
near by, it was taken up the Tennessee River and landed above the 
mouth of Duck River, a small stream running into the Tennessee 
about eight miles above us, and across which there was a ford about 
two miles from its mouth, where the bushwhackers were in the 
habit of crossing, when pursued. It was at this place that the com- 
pany was ordered to go and lie in waiting until morning, and until 
we should drive the game into the trap. With these arrangements 
all completed, I returned to my tent and rested quietly till morning, 
when with one company of Cavalry we commenced the drive. When 
we reached the ford we found that the company that had been sent 
around had already bagged the game. As usual, this band, when 
they found we were in pursuit, had attempted to cross the river, and 
were all captured. 



NO MISTAKES THIS TIME. 139 

" We placed them under charge of the Rear Guard, with orders 
to take good care and not let them escape, and with a few hints in 
regard to the mode of warfare these outlaws carried on, and the 
unnecessary expense of sending them to Nashville, we left them and 
moved on to camp. That was the last we ever saw of those 
guerrillas. 

"A similar attempt soon after this did not turn out so successful. 
I received ortlers from Headquarters of our Regiment, at Section 57, 
to take two companies on board the gunboat and go down the river 
about twenty miles, and land and remain until they should make 
the drive from Section 57. 

" We landed soon after daybreak, and at once sent out pickets 
to various points with orders to arrest all citizens that should be 
found, so that they would not spread the news that we were there, 
but one of our Lieutenants (I will not mention his name) came to a 
school-house and took the school-master prisoner and turned the 
schohirs all loose, to spread the news far and wide. 

" Of course, the game was up ; we could do nothing more than 
wait for the Cavalry, which was to make the drive from Section 57, 
to come in, which did not reach us till long after dark, and when 
they found they had failed to drive in any game, the mysterv was 
explained to them, and though greatly disappointed over the result 
of our day's work, all joined in a round of laughter at the expense of 
the Lieutenant. The question now turned upon how we were to get 
back to camp. A fleet of transports under convoy of a gunboat was 
expected up about midnight. As there was time for the men to rest 
a while, thev rolled themselves in their blankets and laid down some 
distance from the river while a few of us took our position on the 
bank to watch for the boats. It was not lono: after midnight when 
they hove in sight, and when within the sound of our voice, we hailed 
them and asked them to take us on board, but as this was a place 
where boats had been tired on by guerrillas they were suspicious of 
us, and so the Captain of the gunboat which was in the advance 
dropped his boat back and ordered me to get my men all up in line on 
the bank of the river where he could see them. We could hear the 
officer on the boat giving orders to the gunners to load their guns 
and prepare for action and then they approached us very cautiously 
until they became satisfied Ave were not enemies. We were soon on 
board and steaming up the river toward our camp, where we landed 
about daylight, tired and disgusted with our grand expedition, but 
the farce of capturing the school-master furnished laughing stock for 
the Battalion for a long time. 



140 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

"While I was in command of the Third Battalion and com- 
mander of the Post of Johnsonville, Tennessee, the guerrillas or 
bushwhackers became very troublesome, many of them living in 
the neighborhood. 

" One Sunday some of our teamsters, without consent, took mules 
from the corral, and rode into the countiy, and when some two 
miles from camp near the forks of the road they were fired on from 
ambush, and one mule and rider wounded ; the others returned to 
camp much faster than they went out, and reported the case to me. 
I immediately ordered one of the companies of Tennessee Cavalry 
under my command to be in readiness at once, and we commenced 
the pursuit, but after a hard day's ride we returned without any 
game. It was a heavily-timbered country, and one after another 
of these miserable wretches would strike off on some bridle path 
until the whole squad had escaped, 

" Another little incident occurred while at Johnsonville, which 
helped to break the monotony of camp life. One day a squad of 
colored soldiers belonging to the Kegiment under my command 
came to me for a pass to go out in the country to get some veg- 
etables. While they were out they captured an old man taking- 
mail across the lines and brought him to camp with the mail. 
He was examined and placed in the guard-house. When we were 
constructing the railroad from Nashville to Jacksonville the slaves 
along the line were liberated and many of them employed on the 
road. And a few miles from the terminus of the road there lived 
an old man, a widower, and his two daughters. They had quite a 
number of slaves, who, of course, followed in our wake with the 
other colored citizens of African descent, leaving poor Mr. Bar- 
field to do his own work out of doors, and the young ladies 
to learn how to cook and do housework. In the mail that was cap- 
tured bv the colored soldiers I found a letter written by one of 
these young ladies. Miss Sallie Barfield, directed to her brother in 
the Eebel army in which she said that the " Yanks " had taken his 
shot-ffun, but did not get his rifle. So I commissioned Lieutenant 
Tanner, a gallant young officer of Captain Coleman's Company, 
who was Avell acquainted with the Miss Barlields, to go and get the 
rifle spoken of in her letter. Taking the letter with him he boarded 
the first train going east, which soon landed him at the Barfield 
house, Avhere he made known his orders to take the rifle, greatly to 
the surprise of Miss Sallie who seemed to know nothing about it, 
but the Lieutenant said that he knew the gun was there, and his 



NO MISTAKE THIS TIME. 141 

orders were such that he could not return witiiout it. She then 
wanted to know liis authority for saying the gun was there, when 
he produced the letter with her signature to it. She owned up, and 
said the gun was secreted about eight miles from there, but she 
would get it and bring it to camp. True to her promise, a few days 
after that she rode up to my tent on horseback with the rifle on her 
shoulder and delivered it. 

" And now for the old man that was captured with the mail. 

" The next day after the old man was put in the guard-tent, his 
wife, a good motherly-looking okl lady, came into camp and made an 
earnest plea for her husband's release. My sympathy was touched, 
and I told her I would release him on conditk)n that they would both 
take the oath of allegiance. Slie w^anted to know what it was, so 
I read her the iron-clad document, and after listening veiy atten- 
tively she shook her head and said she could not do it, but begged 
hard to have me grant the release; when she found it was of 
no use she went home — the next day she returned with her 
daughter, a fine, rosy-cheeked, red-haired maiden of eighteen sum- 
mers. Thus reinforced they opened on me Avith smiles and tears, 
with pleading and begging, and importuning me with all the lan- 
guage they could command, but when they found it of no effect 
the old lady yielded to the demands; when I told her that there was 
a new factor in the conditions, that the young lady must also take 
the oath, it caused another hitch, but they finally consented, and 
the old man was brought out, and after they all went through that 
dreadful ordeal of taking the oath, they left camp for home, 
for all this they were very kind to me, often bringing me vegeta- 
bles and stopping to have many a pleasant chat, and when we 
received marching orders the old man came to bid us ffood-bve and 
expressed a great deal of sorrow to have us leave. I think the 
acquaintance of these people with the "Yanks" (as they called 
them) gave them new ideas, they did not find them, as they expected, 
with horns and cloven feet. 

"1 have narrated the above incidents to show the different 
phases of army life, and add a little spice to some of the stern reali- 
ties of war."' 

" G. B. BRACKPrrr, Captain Company CP 

May 30th the Government employees in the Quartermaster's 
Department struck for an increase of wages, June 3d they became 
mutinous, Com])any M was ordered to form a cordon around them 
with loaded guns; the mutineers were then disarmed ant! Company 
M escorted them to the State's Prison at Nashville. 



142 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

June 8th Colonel Flad, with eight companies of the Regiment 
and Surgeons Book and Neal, went on an expedition about nine 
miles up the Tennessee River from Johnsonville ; rumors of a force of 
the enemy in that direction had been brought to the Post, but none 
were found. 

About June 20th Assistant Surgeon W. A. Neal was put on 
duty as Post Surgeon and organized a Post Hospital. 

June 24th five hundred and fifty of the Engineer Regiment, 
with two companies of the Second Tennessee Cavalry and a sec- 
tion of Kansas Battery, crossed the Tennessee River in flat boats, 
reaching Camden at eleven o'clock p. m. the next day, going into 
camp five miles south of that place about daylight. Afternoon of 
the 26th started back by another route, marcliing eight miles; 27th 
reached the Tennessee River at noon, and crossed to Johnsonville 
before night. 

July 2d the Second Battalion was moved to Section 53. Dur- 
ino- the months of July and August the men were broken up in 
squads engaged in building blockhouses along the line of the Nash- 
ville & Northwestern Railroad. Jul}^ 15th the guerrillas raided 
a station, killed two track hands, burned up their tents and threat- 
ened the rest with death. 

About the 20th of July, the Post at Johnsonville was threatened 
with a force of the enemy's Cavalry. Colonel Flad, becoming 
alarmed, sent Alfred Craig, of Company F, with dispatches to the 
Colonel of the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin, near Waverl}^ for assistance. 
About three miles from camp, Craig rode into a squad of Rebel Cav- 
alry, was shot, and fell from his horse, and one of the squad rode up 
to where he lay and deliberately emptied his revolver into Craig, 
leaving him for dead. 

Word was brought to camp and Craig was found to be alive 
with one bullet in his head, one in his shoulder and one in his left 
le*^"- • after a long- siege he recovered. The Post was not attacked. 

July 27th the Second Battalion was moved from Section 53 to 

section 28. 

About the 1st of August, the three years' term of the men 
beo-an to expire ; on the 1st, thirty of Compan3'^ E were nmstered out. 

THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. 

Auo"Ust 15th the Regiment was ordered to go to the front near 
Atlanta; loaded on the cars 17th, the Second Battalion marching 
by the road. After turning over all surplus baggage. Quartermaster 



THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. 143 

stores and tents, and placing the sick in the General Hospitals, the 
Regiment reached l^ashville on the 18th, leaving on the 20th, 
of August, at 2 i\ m., reaching Chattanooga, Tennessee, at 9 a. m., 
21st. There were no quarters to be had here ; the men turned out 
of the cars and laid down on the floor of the new machine shop, so 
sleepy and tired that it was with difficulty they could be aroused. 
They staid there all that day and the next night, but on the 
morning of the 22d went into camp one mile from base of Look- 
out Mountain ; 23d, were ordered to pack up for marching ; stood 
around all day in a heavy fog, and laid down at night in the 
same spot near the depot. On the morning of the 21th the Reo-- 
iment started in three trains, reaching Marietta, Georgia, at 
sundown. The trains remained there all night, starting early in 
the morning, reaching the Chattahoochee River bridge at 10 a. m., 
then marched three miles to the front, taking some siege guns on 
the train, returned to the north side of the Chattahoochee brido-e. 

The Twentieth Corps was camped near here and manning the 
fortitications in the front, keeping up an occasional fire from tlie 
siege guns into Atlanta, the pickets keeping up a continual skirmish. 

It was noticeable that many of the headlogs on top of the earth- 
works, eight inches or more in diamater, were filled with lead. At 
points some of them nearly cut in two with the bullets fired at the 
picket behind them, so long and close had been the siege. 

The Regiment remained at the bridge, getting tools and supplies, 
until Monday, August 29, 1861; the teams were loaded up, and all 
but the convalescent sick (who were left at the bridge) started, 
reaching Sandtown, eighteen miles, at 2 p. m., the men halting, the 
teams keeping on as fast as the long train in front would permit. 
The men started early on the morning of the 30th, coming up with 
the wagon train at 2 p. m.; heavy firing heard in advance all dav 
in the southeast direction. We kept up with the wao-on train of 
the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps all day, all night, and all the 
next day (August 31st) until 5 p. m., when we halted in a field a half- 
mile in the rear of the infantry — forty -eight hours without a halt. 

There had been a severe fight the day before, and this day the 
Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps engaged the Fifteenth suflfered 
most. The men slept well, not noticino- the heavy firino- with 
artillery and small arms that was kept up all night, some of the 
shells coming very near our camp. The men had been march- 
ing continuously thirty-six hours without removing their knapsacks ; 
the teamsters and some of the officers, sixty hours without sleep. 



144: 



THE FIKST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 



The firing in front was increased ; as daylight, September 1st, 
appeared, the shells were dro})ping very near our camp. At one 
time in the afternoon the enemy brought out a battery of six-pounder 
guns in an open lield, about a mile directly west of our camp, and in 
plain sight — about a mile away, we could watch their maneuvers 
without being in danger. Later in the afternoon the Fourteenth, 
supported by the Fourth Corps, charged the enemy and drove them 
from their works into Jonesboro. 



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A DETAIL OK THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS DESTROYING A RAILROAD IN GEORGIA. 

September 2d. It was found this morning that the enemy had 
retreated, leaving only a small Rear Guard. About noon we marched 
through Jonesboro, and the men were set at work tearing up the 
railroad track, which the_y did by placing a company along one side 
of the track with levers and hooks. They would lift about 150 feet 
of the track at one side and turn it over, then taking crowbai's and 
sledge hammers would knock the ties free from the rails, lay them 
in piles of fifty or so, set fire to them, and place the rails with their 
center across the burnino: ties until thev were red hot, then two men 
at each end of a heated rail would seize it with a pair of tongs, give 
it a twist, take it to the nearest small tree and wrap it around, 



THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN. 145 

making an iron collar for the tree. This da}^ we went into camp 
three miles south of Jonesboro. This night there was a very heavy 
rain, and having no shelter all were well soaked. About two o'clock 
in the night or morning of the 3d, heavy explosions were heard in 
the direction of Atlanta, about twenty miles away ; the impression 
prevailed that Atlanta had been abandoned. This proved to be 
correct, and the explosions were from the blowing up of the Con- 
federate ordnance stores. 

September 4th, the men all engaged in destroying track, repair- 
ing wagon roads and building earthworks. In the afternoon work 
was ordered stopped, and in the evening we marched back to Jones- 
boro and beyond, where we lay in camp until the evening of the 5th ; 
camp was moved about one mile. On the 5th we marched five miles, 
repairing wagon roads as we went. 

September Yth, in camp at Gaines' Mill ; the roads are badly out 
of repair, the men busy repairing them. Just at dark we were in 
motion again and marched ahead two miles ; rained all rio-ht. 

Tuesday, September 8th, the main part of the Regiment marched 
to East Point, took a short rest, and marched two miles farther 
toward Atlanta and encamped. 

September 9th Companies E and G were just before dark 
ordered back to East Point, the balance of the Regiment with the 
headquarters having marched into Atlanta. 

The detachment at East Point was worked in details at fortifi- 
cations there, burning coal and other work there. The time of a 
great many of the men expired, and they w^ere discharged and went 
home from that place, twenty-seven of Company E in one day, Sep- 
tember 2Yth, and as many from Company G. 

About October 1st the whole Regiment was gathered in one 
camp in Atlanta. The men while there, during the month of 
October, were engaged in building and strengthening the fortifica- 
tions. 

This Regiment was left at Atlanta during the whole of the time 
General Sherman was north with the main part of his troops after 
Hood. While there we wei'e cooped up some six weeks with no rations 
except hard broad and fresh beef; all the bacon was reserved 
for the long march to follow. There was no feed for the horses or 
cattle, the beeves becoming very thin and poor, and as fast as they 
became too weak to stand they were killed and dressed, and they 
made about as tasteless meat as men ever tried to eat; we all got 
very hungry for a little fat. It was unsafe to venture outside the 



]^46 '^HE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

lines to forage, as roving companies of the enemy were moving 
around in the vicinity all the time, though once a strong escort was 
sent out with teams to forage ; they brought in a few wagon loads- 
of sweet potatoes, which were a great treat and were devoured all 
too soon. One day, about the middle of the month of October, a 
Cavalrv company of the enemy, with a section of Artillery, made a 
bold dash through the outer fortifications south of Atlanta, just as 
we were sitting down to breakfast. Their onset was with the then 
familiar "Rebel yell;" the shells from their guns came sailing beauti- 
fully over and beyond our camp. We watched them and went on 
with our breakfast as though it was an every-day occurrence, with 
no dancer for any one ; their small arms, which made a great 
rattlino-, all appeared to fall short of where we were ; it was a grand 
sight ! A display of noisy fireworks in the day time. They did 
not remain long, as our infantry and forts soon woke up and were at 
them. If any one was hurt on either side it was not made known. 

THE BATTALION CONSOLIDATION. 

About the 31st of October the terms of some five hundred of 
the men expired and they started home, and the Regiment was by 
this time reduced from thirteen hundred to six hundred. When by 
Special Orders No. 246, Department and Army of the Tennessee, 
dated October 31, 1864, the veterans and recruits were consoli- 
dated into a battalion of five companies. 

The order consolidating into five companies was as follows : 

Headquarters Department and Army of the Tennessee, ) 
Atlanta, Georgia, October 31, 1864. ) 

Special Orders No. 246. 

I. 1st. In compliance with General Orders No. 86, War Department, Adju- 
tant-General's office, 1863, the First Regiment Engineers, Missouri Volunteers, is 
hereby consolidated into five companies, and the following will be the organi- 
zation : 

William Tweeddale, Lieutenant-Colonel; Eben M. Hill, Major; John C. 
Brook, Surgeon ; William N. Neal, Assistant Surgeon. 

Company A William Hill, Captain; Francis Tunica and Hey wood M. 

Sumner, First Lieutenants; Stephen S. Browne, Second Lieutenant. 

Eio-ht sergeants, ten corporals, sixty artificers, fifty-three privates — total, 131. 

Company B— Thomas W. Bailey, Captain; George G. Bayne, First Lieu- 
tenant; Lucien W. Coy, First Lieutenant. 

Eleven sero-eants, ten corporals, three musicians, sixty artificers, fifty-two 

privates — total, 136. 

Company C Benjamin F. Coleman, Captain; John McLaren, First Lieu- 

enant; John P. Morton, First Lieutenant; James M. Newhard, Second Lieu- 
tenant. 



THE BATTALION CONSOLIDATION, l47 

Twelve sergeants, nine corporals, one musician, sixty-four artificers, fifty- 
two privates — total, 138. 

Company D — Benjamin F. Buzard, Captain; Benjamin R, Tanner, First 
Lieutenant; William A. Morton, First Lieutenant; Solomon Goodrich, Second 
Lieutenant. 

Ten sergeants, eleven corporals, one musician, fifty- nine artificers, fifty- 
three privates — total, 134. 

Company E — Oscar F. Storey, Captain ; Ashael D. Whitcomb, First Lieu- 
tenant; William K. Lyle, First Lieutenant; Stephen T. Lucas, Second Lieu- 
tenant. 

Eleven sergeants, ten corporals, two musicians, fifty-three artificers, fifty- 
nine privates — total, 185. 

One sergeant of Company B will be transferred to the non-commissioned 
staff. 

One musician of Company B will be transferred to Company A. 
One sergeant of Company C will be transferred to the non-commissioned 
staff. 

One sergeant of Company C will be transferred to Company A. 
One corporal of Company D will be transferred to Company C. 
One sergeant of Company E will be transferred to Company A. 
2d. The following named ofticers, rendered supernumerary, will, on the 
12th day of November, 1864, be mustered out of the service of the United States: 
Colonel Henry Flad. 
Major N. C. Nichols. 
Captain James Dunn, Company A. 
Captain William G. Patton, Company B. 
Captain Haynes E. Hudson, Company D. 
Captain Christian Lochbiler, Company I. 
Captain John E. Murpliy, Company K. 
Captain Herman Giseke, Company L. 
First Lieutenant Littleton R. Lancaster, Company A. 
First Lieutenant Daniel G. Parker, Company B. 
First Lieutenant Eli Winegar, Company C. 
First Lieutenant Horace B. Hooker, Company C. 
First Lieutenant Silas W. Mattis, Company F. 
First Lieutenant John Murphy, Company L. 
First Lieutenant William E. Hight, Company M. 
Second Lieutenant William C. Claxton, Company A, 
Second Lieutenant Gustavus Salzman, Company G. 
By order op Ma.jor-General O. O. Howard. 

John H. Munroe, Assistant Adjutant- Oeneral. 

THE CENTRALIA, MISSOURI, MASSACRE. 

About the 22d of September, 18G4, Sergeant Goodman, who 
had, previous to the consolidation, served in Company K of the 
Twenty-fifth Missouri, and Valentine Peters, Josiah Connor, Charles 



148 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

T. Ilildebiddle, James Mobley, Cass Kose and James Thomas, who 
had all served in the Twenty-fifth Missouri, and whose homes were 
in Northwestern Missouri and Southwestern Iowa, received a fur- 
lough. Although the word furlough expressed a good deal to a 
soldier, much more than can be conceived by a mere civilian, they 
little imagined what they would undergo on the trip. 

The following is compiled from a little book of sixty-six pages, 
published by Sergeant Thomas Goodman, the only survivor of the 
Centralia massacre, where twenty-seven discharged and furloughed 
soldiers and Major Johnson's command of 120 men were massacred 
by deceit, in cold blood, after surrender: 

At Big Shanty, thirty-live miles from Atlanta, the track was 
found torn up. Many of those on the train belonged to the First 
Missouri Engineers, and they went to work with a will, and in the 
course of four or five hours the eighty rods or more of destroyed 
track was re])aired. No more incidents occurred on the trip to 
Louisville except the delay of the trains, and the time was passed 
away by the comrades in telling experiences and yarns, and in dis- 
cussing the Tennessee ladies, which all agreed were " up to snuff." 
It is said that many of the men at the stopping places, Chattanooga, 
Nashville, etc., visited various institutions where liquids are dispensed 
for a consideration, trying to elevate their own spirits by pouring 
liquid spirits down ; this, and it is said with sorrow, was a weakness 
common at that time with a good many soldiers. As the}^ approached 
Louisville, Kentucky, some one of them cries : " Hurrah ! near God's 
countr}^ at last." " Bully for God's country," says another. '' Won't 
I have a square meal before long ? " says a third. " Now for refresh- 
ments and substantials," say all ; and they went for them as only 
soldiers who have lived on bacon, beans and hard tack for months 

know how. 

They left St. Louis, Missouri, on the morning of September 
27th. Before leaving the depot they heard warnings that it was not 
safe for the United States mails and unarmed soldiers to pass over 
the North Missouri Kailroad, as the route was infested with guerrillas, 
and that large bodies of them had been seen within a few days at 
Centralia and other points ; further warning that the guerrillas were 
upon the road was received at St. Charles, but as other soldiers got 
on board there, the increase in numbers gave them more courage. 
Still all were uneasy and in evident excitement with an expectant 
anxiety of expression, such as marks the soldiers' features upon the 
eve of bat though happily unconscious of the fate that awaited 



THE CENTRALIA, MISSOURI, MASSACRE. 149 

them. As all said guerrillas were on the road, the conductor was 
asked if he had a train guard on board, answered that he had 
twenty-seven old soldiers — their uniforms alone would scare off 
guerrillas. 

Upon the approach of the train to Centralia, it became evident 
that the fears of an attack were not groundless. Quite a large body 
of mounted and dismounted men were to be seen around the station. 
Some of the boys noted peculiarities in the crowd that stamped 
them as guerrillas and our natural enemies. The train was moving 
rapidly and it was hoped the conductor would pass without stop- 
ping, but he failed to make the attempt. When the whistle sounded 
for the stop, a soldier of the First Iowa Cavalry, looking out of the 
window, said : " There are guerrillas there, sure ! " A moment 
more the train was inside a line of blazing, murderous weapons, and 
volley after volley was poured into the train until it came to a stop. 
The men on board were totally unarmed. With shouts and yells the 
guerrillas in a body rushed toward the cars, the doors were burst 
open, the captors shouting, " Surrender ! " The boys had collected 
about the center of the car, looking as though they intended resist- 
ance. One of the guerrillas said : " Surrender quietly and you 
shall be treated as prisoners of war." Some one of the boys 
answered : "We can only surrender, as we are totally unarmed." 

In a moment the spirit of our captors was changed. On learn- 
ing our defenseless condition, the promise of humane treatment was 
withdrawn, and those half-cowed wretches of a moment before 
became lawless and inhuman monsters. For each guerrilla to pre- 
sent his revolver to the man singled out and demand the money or 
life of his victim was the work of a moment ; evidently a pre- 
arranged matter, so quickly and quietly was it done. Not a man 
escaped. 

They were ordered to fall into line, with hearts filled with 
vague apprehensions, which, when ordered to strip off their clothes, 
became certainties, and they began to contemplate death as the 
speediest deliverance from a worse fate. The fatal line was formed, 
twent3^-seven soldiers, unarmed, defenseless men, before these 
demons, to expiate their crime of loyalty to their country ! History 
has no parallel to the monstrosity of this act. Honor and loyalty 
are brave, cheering words in the hour of death ; great and good men 
have died for them. It would be difficult to find in history or fable 
an instance where men prepared for death so calmly as those brave 
men, No faltering, no emotion, no entreaty, only a fixed deter- 



150 THE FIRST MISSOUKI ENGINEERS. 

mination to meet cruelty with sublimity, and in the presence of 
devils to die like 7nen. Stripped to tiieir underclothing-, in line they 
calmly waited the fatal signal. Anderson, the chief of the guerrillas, 
approached. As his eyes wandered over the doomed men, he sud- 
denl}^ said: " Boys, have you a Sergeant in your ranks?" No one 
answered ; they wondered what the inquiry would lead to. The 
chief repeated the inquiry. Silence pervaded the rank. In a louder 
tone he asked the question, adding : ^> If there be one, let him stand 
aside." 

Sergeant Goodman, knowing that the stripes on the coat taken 
from him would designate his rank, and fearing to keep longer 
silent, stepped out, wondering the purpose of the demand. Ander- 
son directed two of his men to take charge of and remove the 
Sergeant from the spot. He was at once conducted to the rear. He 
had hardly reached the place when a vollej^^from the revolvers, with 
yells of the guerrillas, mingled with cries and moans of pain and dis- 
tress, were heard. The line had disappeared; most of his comrades 
lay dead on the ground, others groaning in the agony of their 
wounds, some making a last struggle for existence, or trying to 
avoid further injury. 

One brave man. Sergeant Peters, made a desperate struggle for 
life, and succeeded in felling a number of hisassadants and obtained 
a temporary res])ite by hiding beneath the station-house, which was 
fired at once, and they succeeded in killing him; after the last one 
was killed, the train was fired and started up the track. 

The civilians stood trembling by, fearing to speak for dread of 
a like fate. 

Sergeant Goodman could not conceive why he was saved, and 
kept waiting in anxiety and suspense for the ordeal he supposed he 
was to pass through, and which he fancied would be only more hor- 
rible torture than his comrades had passed through. The guerrillas, 
each time, they passed heaped abuse and curses upon him; some would 
place a revolver carbine close to his head, with the threat. I would 

like to kill the Yankee ; " hell fire is too good " and other 

expressions, vile, obscene and abusive; the guard could only save their 
prisoner by the threat to call Anderson. Goodman made no reply 
as the guard told him they were trying to get some provocation for 
killing him. The guerrillas finally mounted and began to march in a 
northwesterly direction ; Goodman was placed on a mule with a 
guard on each side ; the Union soldiers were left lying where they 
had fallen. Just after leaving Centralia a freight train arrived which 



THE CENTKALIA, MISSOURI, MASSACRE. 151 

was burned by twenty or thirty who turned back for that purpose. 
Their camp was about two and a half miles from Centralia. There 
Goodman heard one of the band remark : ''I say Bill I wonder how 

in h 1 Anderson has let that d d Yankee hve so long ?" 

*'Dunno; can't say, lest like t'was a Providence ; for faint like Old 
Bill, is it ?" 

Anderson was a man without pity, without emotion. Goodman 
was the first man who wore the Federal blue that he ever spared ; 
his band was mostly deserters, renegades and outlaws. 

They had been in the outlaws' camp but a short time, wdien 
word was brought of a Federal force under Major Johnson of one 
hundred and sixty men, who w^ere approaching to give them battle. 
Goodman was ordered to mount a horse and the guard instructed 
that if he tried to escape in the battle to kill him instantly. Ander- 
son divided his force, sent one-half of this one hundred and twenty 
men around to the left, the other half to the right and led the others 
to the direct attack on the center, which he did with a yell. The two 
flanks at the same time appearing, yelling like demons, dashed for- 
ward on the little line of dismounted Federals ; defeat was inevi- 
table, though the little handful in blue showed true courage ; there 
was no flinching; their conduct was worthy of emulation ; they did 
all they had time to do— gave the rabble one volley ; they were sur- 
rounded before they had time to do more ; the guerrillas were riding 
throuo-h their ranks shoutino:: "Surrender, surrender." 

Yes, they surrendered. As did the unarmed men on the train 
a few hours before, as prisoners of war, were disarmed and rendered 
defenseless. No sooner was this done than "hell" was let loose; 
even the horrors at Centralia were outdone in the infamous conduct 
of these bloody demons ; men's heads were severed from their bodies, 
exchanged to other lifeless bodies and labelled with rough and 
obscene inscriptions; lifeless heads were stuck upon carbine points, 
on fence stakes, on stumps, and tied to saddle bows. The detach- 
ment, twenty-five men holding the horses of Johnson's command, 
sought safety in flight as soon as the flanking ]iarty appeared. They 
were hotly pursued, from five to ten men chasing one Federal 
soldier; not more than two or three it is said of these men escaped, 
and about one hundred and twenty men of Johnson's command were 
slain on this occasion. 

The band then started to Centralia to massacre the escort left 
with the wagon train. Some of the soldiers saw them coming and 
mounting escaped ; a few were captured and killed. One man who 



152 THE FIKST MISSOUEI ENGINEERS. 

shut himself up in an outhouse, proposing to defend himself, was- 
told that Major Johnson and all his men were prisoners, and was 
assured by everything sacred that he would not be harmed, but 
would be treated as they had been, which was true in one thing — as 
soon as he opened the door he was shot dead — treated as his com- 
rades had been. 

On the return to the camp, three hours were allotted for rest to 
the band, and the march was taken up toward the Missouri Kiver, as 
Anderson said '' the land will be swarming with blue coats bv to- 
morrow evening." The march was continued all night, halting at 
daylight, after a rest it was taken up by by-roads and through brush 
until noon ; a halt was made until nightfall, when the march was 
again continued, halting at midnight with orders to rest until day- 
light. 

In the morning Sergeant Goodman was ordered to curry and 
saddle Anderson's horse, which, though against the grain, he did with 
a blacksmith's energy. Anderson in passing about an hour later, 
said to him : " Well old fellow, how are you getting along ? " 

" Yery well, sir," was the reph^ 

" You are the first being whose life I ever spared, who was 
caught in Federal blue." 

" That's so. Colonel," shouted twenty or more of the guerrillas, 
as Anderson rode forward. 

A fine looking man rode up, addressing the guard: " Who is 
this man?" 

"A prisoner, taken at Centralia, sir," was the reply. 

" I thought you took no prisoners I" 

" This one, Colonel, reserved by Anderson's orders !" 

"Aha, I understand, Anderson was right." 

This man was an officer of Price's army. 

Some ten or fifteen miles further on a halt was made. Scarcely 
ten minutes later a cry was raised: " The Yankees are coming ! 
Ride as if hell was after you !" 

Without orders each sprang to his saddle, led by Anderson, they 
dashed into the road. 

Goodman's hope arose as the boom, boom, of a field piece was 
heard and a six-pound shell burst one hundred yards to the right 
and another in nearly the same line set them in rapid motion by the 
left to the rear. They had been badly frightened, but emerging on 
the prairie they galloped to an eminence from which the entire 
country seemed dotted over w^ith Federal Cavalry ! Kow the chase 
began. The bold leader saw at a glance their peril. 




LIEUTENANT AI)1)IS(^N N. GLENN. 




LIEUTENANT L. W. COV. 



TIIK CENTKALIA, MISSOUKI, MASSACRE. 153 

With a shout, undei'stood by his men, Anderson wlieeled and 
dashed by the cohimn to the rear halting by Goodman's side. In a 
second, excepting- Anderson and eight men, the entire cohmm was 
dasiiing over the prairie in squads of from five to eight men, cacli 
taking a different course to mislead the Federals. 

Goodman thought his time had come, as he did not hope to be 
carried a prisoner through their peril. After a time Anderson turn- 
ing said : " Prisoner, you must ride for your life ! Boys, we all 
must !" 

Away for hours they rode in retreat. Stopping about half-past 
four in a heavy piece of timber the squads began to come in, some 
with badly wounded men. This w^as their rendezvous. They began 
to drink and soon were wild, except two men who never drank, wlio 
were e-uardinii- Goodman. 

The force was here divided into squads. The country was so 
excited over the Centralia acts they could not hope to keep together 
in safety any longer. The squad with Anderson took charge of 
Goodman, and gave him an old coat, putting on a Federal officer's 
uniform. After several days' march through the brush tiie Missouri 
Kiver was reached near Maxwell's Mill. Tlie band was here 
recruited and prepared again for action, and the order for march 
was given October 6th, with the rej)orted intention of crossing 
near Rocheport. The first point reached not suiting Aiulerson, they 
passed through Rocheport to three miles below; the night was dark 
and Goodman determined to escape in the confusion of crossing the 
river. Rut eight men could cross at once and he and liis guards 
were the last. 

The men were in the boats leading the iiorses to swim tiiem, 
some of whom proved restive, all was excitement ; one of the guards 
said to the other, " you watch the prisoner, 1 want to see the start." 
A moment later some sudden and increased excitement at the river 
and the other guard moved about a rod in that direction ; Sergeant 
Goodman seized the opportunity and w;ilked rapidly away directly 
into the crowd of men and horses near, passing carelessly through, 
struck into a dense mass of bushes and brushwood on the river 
bank, pausing to listen after going some two hundred yards, hearing 
nothing, he struck in the direction of the North Stai", to reach the 
Post at Fayette. At daylight a signboard showed he had only made 
eight miles, though he had walked at least twenty. He hid in an 
old tobacco shed, and at night resumed the journey. "When nearly 
exhausted from fatigue and want of food he met an old negro, who 



154 



THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 



told him that he was only one mile from Fayette, and only three or 
four hundred j^ards from the line of the Federal pickets. Thoughts 
of liberty, friends, home, caused him for a time to forget himself 
and his guerrilla dress, as he was rushing forward, the command 
"halt there!" greeted him, and he stood within twenty paces of a 
cavalry man in blue; the sentinel convinced, and listening to his 
stor7 the Corporal was dispatched to Post Headquarters, Captain 
Eaton, Ninth Missouri Cavalry. The next day word was brought 
that Anderson and Shelijy was marching against Fayette. 
Another trusty scout was sent out to obtain further information. 
He returned in a very brief time, stating there was barely time to 
save themselves from a fate like that at Centralia. The march 




THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS DESTROYING A RAILROAD SHOWING THE USE OF 
HOOKS MADE KY THEM FOR THE PURPOSE. 

to Macon was at once taken up, and home was reached in safety. 
Sergeant Goodman died in Santa Barbara, California, in the sum- 
mer of 1887. 

INCIDEInTTS AT ATLANTA. 

While yet at Atlanta, news of Price's raid through the central 
part of Southern Missouri, and of how some of our Pegiment who 
had parents, wives, brothers and sisters there were despoiled, their 
homes fired, the last crust or covering taken, and other atrocities. 
These men became greatly embittered, and, it is said, to in a meas- 
ure get some revenge on Confederates, they afterw^ard assisted in 
spreading the conflagration at Columbia, South Carolina. 



THE MARCH TO THE SEA. 



155 



Soon after coming to Atlanta, Lieutenant W. K. Lyle was 
detailed to go to Nashville and procure new material for a pontoon 
train and other engineer supplies ; he returned to Atlanta on the 
last train over the road. During the first two weeks in ISTovember at 
Atlanta, the Battalion was engaged in drilling on the ponton, and 
getting it in complete order, making and repairing necessary engi- 
neer and pioneer tools for an extended march, and in tearing up the 
railroads east and south of Atlanta. 

November 13th and 14th one Lieutenant and ten men were 
making ox-yokes, details making hooks for destroying railroads ; 
the balance of the men tearing up the Atlanta & Macon Railroad 
under direction of Captain Poe, Chief Engineer. It was found 
that forty men with hooks and levers could tear up and destroy 
four-fifths of a mile per hour. (See engraving on opposite page.) 



THE MARCH TO THE SEA. 




OVEMBER 15, 1864, the Battalion, under command 
of Lieutenant-Colonel Tweeddale, left Atlanta 
with the army ; transportation and the roads 
very bad. One compan}'^ was detailed to repair 
roads and one to assist teams over bad places. 
We arrived at South River about 6 p. m. The 
train in advance was stalled on Moore's Hill. 
Two companies were sent to help the train up 
the hill; went into camp two and a half miles beyond at 11 p. m; 
distance marched, thirteen miles. 

16th. Ordered to start at daylight; sent one company to build 
a bridge across a creek near camp, and did not get started until 
near eleven a. m., having to wait for train in front to move. One 
company was detailed to assist Captain Buzard with ponton train ; 
camped within one mile of McDonough, at 11 p. m. The last of 
ponton train did not reach camp until 1 a. m.; distance marched, 
sixteen miles. 

17th, Department Headquarters' orders were to march at 6 
A. M. Cai^tain Buzard's orders from General Blair were to march 
at 5 A. M. The ponton train marched in advance of the Regi- 
ment; two companies were detailed to assist the ponton train over 
the hills and bad places. Arrived in camp across the Tassahaw 
river, near Hendrick's Mill, about 7 p. m., having marched that 



156 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

day twenty miles. Orders came that evening to push forward one 
section of the bridge to jSFoUing's Factory and have it thrown across 
the Ocmulgee river as soon as possible. The mules of the train 
having failed very much, Captain Keese directed that mules be 
obtained from General Smith's Division, Seventeenth Corps. 

18th. Started at o a. m. in advance with a section of thirty 
wagons of the ponton train, drawn by thirty of the best mule 
teams, with three companies of the Regiment as a guard ; arrived 
at the Ocmulgee river, near Polling's Factory, at 11 a. m. ; bridge 
275 feet long ; ready at 1 p. m. The second section not coming 
up. Colonel Tweeddale went back and found it was delayed by 
the mules giving out and the road being blocked by the trains of 
the Fifteenth Corj)s. The road was cleared and the section arrived 
at the village at 2 p. m; waited one hour to have the road cleared 
to the river. The second bridge was ready for crossing at 5 p. m.; 
length of this bridge, 264 feet ; depth of water, thirteen feet ; dis- 
tance marched, twelve miles. 

19th. One company was sent across the river to repair the 
roads, and details sent to obtain mules for the ponton train. In the 
afternoon the balance of the Regiment moved across and camped on 
the top of the hill. Fires were built on that side from the river to the 
top of the hill to enable the teams to get over the road in the dark. 

20th. The Army having crossed, except the cattle of the Four- 
teenth and Twentieth Corps and the rear guard, one bridge was 
taken up at noon and the train started at 1 p. m. 

The ponton train used by the First Missouri Engineer Regiment 
on this march was of skeleton frame boats, covered with canvas, using 
sixty wagons, with six mules to each wagon, which was afterward 
increased to eight mules to a wagon. Besides our train there were 
tw^entyfive hundred wagons and six hundred ambulances in the 
Army train. 

The pontons were composed of two skeleton sides and two end 
pieces of 3x3-inch wood, about twenty feet long and three feet 
wide. The sides, end pieces and braces were separate, and were put 
together and held with hooks and staples, the canvas, which for each 
boat was just a large square sheet of very heavy duck, tarpaulin 
or sailcloth, was drawn up at each end and tied, making a boat very 
strong that did not leak a drop. The boats were then taken out 
into the stream and anchored about six feet apart, the first two 
from stakes on shore, as well as the last two on the far side, the 
balance with iron anchors weighing near two hundred pounds 



THE MARCH TO THE SEA. 



157 



in the stream; the boats were also tied diagonally across from end 
to end. As soon as a boat was placed the beams or balks, four in 
number, \vere laid, first from a plank on shore to the far edge of 
the first boat, then from the shore edge of the first boat to the 
far edge of the second boat, and so on. The planks or chesses were 
then laid as fast as a boat was anchored and the balks laid on it. 
As each twelve feet of the chesses were laid, the guard-plank was 
put down and tied at the end to the chesses, and so on until the 
bridge was completed. The chesses and guard-plank were about 
one and one-half inches thick, six inches wide and twelve feet 
long; the balks, six inches square and twelve feet long. Seethe 
engraving below : 




PLAN OF PONTON BRIDGE. 

A— Bridge. B— One skeleton side. C— End piece. 

One boat with the frames, canvas, anchors, ropes, braces, balks 
(beams or sills), chesses (planks for flooring), and guard-planks made 
a load for one wagon, and is the lightest, strongest and quickest 
laid ponton in use. 

The roads on the 20th of November were found generally good 
until within one mile of Monticello, where they were very^bad 
through a clay ravine, and it became difficult to get along in the 
darkness and rain; went into camp a half mile south of ''the vil- 
lage. Captain Buzard, having a number of surplus citizen teamsters, 



158 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

oro-anized them into a pioneer corps and sent them in advance of the 
ponton train to repair roads; marched ten and a half miles. 

21st. Started at 5:30 a. m. It had rained all night, making the 
roads very bad; moved very slow; within one mile of ITillsboro 
the roads became impassable; at 5 p. m. went into camp, having 
marched nine and a half miles; worked until 8:30 repairing roads; 
weather cold, with frost. 

22d, Started men in advance at 6 a. m., the train at 6:45; the 
weather cold, with snow^, and roads miserable; got four wagons 
through to Clinton, the balance of the train scattered along for two 
miles. We worked until 11 o'clock p. m., when, finding it impossible 
to get farther, went into bivouac alongside the wagons ; distance 
marched, fourteen miles. 

23d. On account of the wagons being frozen fast in the mud, 
it was late before the train was started. A by-road was found which 
had not been cut up by the trains. The train was got up the hill 
at 1 p. M. About three miles south of Clinton we received fifty-five 
six-mule teams from the Headquarters train, and put eight mules to 
each wagon and pushed on. The infantry advance turned off on 
the wrong road. About 5:30 p. m. General Corse sent an aid to tell 
us that "there were no troops in advance; that if we desired to go 
further and would not wait, he would send a guard." He also stated 
that "the General was in camp one and a half miles in rear of us." 
We then w^ent into camp where we were, six miles from Gordon; 
marched thirteen miles. 

24th. Started at 6 a. m. Colonel Tweeddale went in advance 
to Gordon, and at Headquarters was ordered to divide the train <and 
the Regiment into two sections, the first section to report to the 
Fifteenth Corps; the second section, under command of Captain 
Buzard, to report to the Seventeenth Corps, to fill up the second 
section with the best eight-mule teams and harness and send them 
immediately on the Jackson ferry road, the Seventeenth Corps 
having already gone ; to obtain transportation for the first section 
from the Fifteenth Corps. Companies A and E were detached to 
report to Captain Buzard, whose section was filled up and started 
at 1 p. M. There were now but forty-one mules left, and they 
were unserviceable. Transportation for the whole of the first sec- 
tion was obtained from Colonel Fort, Chief Quartermaster Fifteenth 
Corps. Started again at 3 p. m. on orders from General Osterhaus, 
commanding Fifteenth Corps ; arrived at Irwinton at 8 p. m. 



THE MARCH TO THE SEA. 159 

25th. At 6:30 A.M. ten teams reported from the First Division, 
and ten from the Second Division, at 7. The train was still two 
teams short, so the ponton supply wagons were each filled with six 
ponton train mules, and one boat-wagon with team from the regi- 
mental train, replacing them with eight mules from ponton train. 
Started at 7:15 a. m., and arrived within one mile of the Oconee 
river at Ball's Ferry at 1 p. m.; at 5 p. m. four boat- wagons, one 
chess-wagon and eighty men were sent to the river a half mile above 
the ferry. The stream was very rapid, the boats unwieldy and there 
was considerable difficulty in getting a rope across. A rope was 
finally attached to a tree above, the boat got across, and a Lieutenant 
and thirty men ferried troops across. This day marched fifteen 
miles. 

26th. At 6 A. M., a detail of a Lieutenant and some men 
were sent to bring up the boat and chess-wagons to where the 
train was. At 7:15 a. m. orders were received to lay the bridge across 
the Oconee River at Ball's Ferry. Owing to the delay in getting the 
wagons up that were used the evening before, when the troops were 
ferried across, the bridge was not ready to cross until 11 a. m.^ 
length of bridge 236 feet, depth of water ten feet. Orders 
were received to divide the train, pontons and appurtenances. 
Lieutenant Lyle was assigned to receive ten eight-mule teams 
from Lieutenant Morton with harness and everything com- 
plete. Company A was ordered to report to the first sec- 
tion and relieve Lieutenant Tanner and detail from first section. 
The second section was then loaded up and sent forward with the 
Fourth Division Fifteenth Corps, in charge of Lieutenant John P. 
Morton ; Company C and twelve men, four boat-wagons, two chess 
wagons, two Lieutenants and twenty men were detailed to take 
charge of the bridge during the night. 

27th. At 7 A. m. the bridge being still down, and no cross- 
ing since 3 a. m.. Captain Buzard had taken up the bridge of 
the Seventeenth Corps early in the morning ; permission was 
obtained for the loan of mules and harness to take this train to the 
camp of the Seventeenth Corps, a distance of two miles. The regi- 
mental train was then sent across, and parked one mile in 
advance ; the bridge was taken up at noon, and the train started 
at 1:25 ; the roads were generally good, but delay was caused 
by cattle of the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps ; arrived at 
Irwin Cross Roads at 6:30 p. m., having marched eight and a half 
miles. 



160 



THE FIRST MISSOUEI ENGINEERS. 



28th. Were as signed a position in rear of the Third Division of 
the Fifteenth Corps. Owing to some misunderstanding the Second 
Division tram got in before us, dehiying us nearl}^ three hours in 
starting, during which time we sat around, in weary waiting, and 
making our progress slow, owing to the long train in advance of us 
on the same road, besides we had several bad swamps to cross. We 
were delayed so long at a swamp that finally we went into camp at 
9 p. M., one mile in rear of the Second Division, and nearly four 
miles in rear of Third Division, near the Little Ohoope River; dis- 
tance marched this day, thirteen miles. 




FORAGING IN GEORGIA. 



29th. Started the train 5:05 a. m.; pushed forward and arrived 
at Headquarters, Third Division, at 7:15; we were delayed by the 
Third Division until 8:20; roads generall}' good during the forenoon; 
about 10 o'clock the trail of the Seventeenth Corps opened parallel 
with the main road. About 1 p. m. we struck off to the right into a 
circuitous road that led through the woods and swamps, arriving 
in camp at 8:30 at Luther Sand's Mill, on Sartain's Creek, having 
marched twenty miles. 

30th. We started at da^iight. The men were sent forward to 
build a bridge at the mill. The teams fell into the rear of the 
Third Division, whose pioneers we found repairing the road 
occupied yesterday by the Fourth Division in our rear. The Second 
Division passed us on a road across a swamp, and our men assisted 




E. M. HILL, LIEUTENANT COLONEL 1st MISSOURI 
ENGINEERS, FROM MAY, 1865. 





W. A. NEAL, Asst. Surg. 1st Mo. Engrs., l.siu. 



Dr. W. A. NEAL, Elkhart, Ind., 1889. 



THE MARCH TO WASHINGTON. 17Y 

approaches. The troops having all crossed at 5 p. m., the bridge 
was taken up, and the}' started for Ealeigh, arriving in camp at 2 
A. M., 15th, having marched eleven miles. 

15th. Advanced and marched four miles ; went into camp on 
the Hillsboro road. 

10th. Under orders returned to same camp at Raleigh. 

18th. Rumors were circulating that Johnson's Army had sur- 
rendered. 

20th and 21st. There was a grand review of the Tenth and 
Twent^'-third Corps. 

24th. The word is circulating in camp that General Sherman's 
terms to General Johnson receiving his surrender are rejected at 
Washington, and that General Grant had arrived in person to direct 
tlie campaign. 

27th. It was duly pul)lished to the army that General Johnson 
had surrendered, and tliat General Grant had returned to Washing- 
ton, and the feeling in the army is that the war is over. 

THE MARCH TO WASHIXGTOK. 

April 29th. The whole army left Raleigli for Washington, our 
Regiment arriving in Manchester, opposite Richmond, Virginia, May 
9th, crossing the James River, andmarching through Richmond May 
11th. We arrived in Alexandria in sight of Washington May 19tli; 
staid in camp there until May 24th. We took ])art that day in the 
grand review of Sherman's Army, and at tlie close of the review 
encainped out on Fourteenth Street, near Columbia College. We 
remained in Washington until June 3d. In the march from Raleioh 
to Washington ^ve had made some very rapid marching, at one time 
Ave marched with the ponton trains of sixt}" wagons, forty-four miles 
within twenty-four hours. 

RusiiviLLE, Illinois, December 18, 18G5. 
Colonel Samuel P. Shnj/son, Adjutant- General of Mmouri: 

Sir — lu com2:)liance with your request, I would state that the First Mis- 
souri Engineers were at Savannah, Georgia, on the 1st of January, 18G5, build- 
ing fortifications and repairing the poutons of the Army of the Tennessee, pre- 
paratory to the great campaign with ^lajor-Geueral Sherman through the Caro- 
linas to Raleigh, North Carolina, where General Johnston surrendered. 

We were in charge of the pontons of the Array of the Tennessee. The 
first great work was bridging Broad River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. We 
marched with the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Army Corps, sharing all the dan- 
gers, hardships and exposures incident to the campaign, often putting bridges 
across streams under fire of the enemy's guns; were at the destruction o 



178 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

Columbia, South Carolina, then at Fayetteville, North Carolina, and at the battle 
near Goldsboro, North Carolina. Marched thence to Raleigh, North Carolina, 
on the 39th of April, 18G5. Left Raleigh, North Carolina, for Washington, 
D. C, by way of Petersburg, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Alexandria, Vir- 
ginia, and took part in the grand review at Washington, D. C. 

We were next ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, where we arrived June 7, 
1865; went into camp and passed satisfactory inspection by General Reese, 
Inspector-General, Army of the Tennessee. 

On the 23d of July were mustered out of the service of the United States, 
and ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, for final discharge, where we arrived on the 
24th of July, 1865, and were discharged on that day, after a four years' cam- 
paign, from our original organization as the Engineer Regiment of the West, 
under Colonel J. W. Bissell, to date of muster out. 

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

Wm. Hill, 
Late Lieutenant- Colonel First Missouri Engineers. 

TO LOUISVILLE AND THE MUSTEE OUT. 

June 3, 1865, we all started for Louisville, Kentucky, on the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Arriving at Parkersburg, West Vir- 
ginia, on the 6th, we were transferred to a steamboat on the Ohio 
River, and arrived at Louisville on the evening of the 7th, going 
into camp two miles above the city. We remained in Louisville 
until July 22d, when, just before evening, we marched to New 
Albany, and took the cars there about 9 p. :m. for St. Louis, Mis- 
souri, arriving there on the afternoon of the 24th and were quar- 
tered in Jefferson Barracks ; mustered out, and the last of the Regi- 
ment paid off July 28, 1865, although the muster rolls are all 
dated Louisville, Kentucky, July 22, 1865. 

The following, from the report of the Adjutant-General of Mis- 
souri for the year 1865, is appended : 

HISTORICAL MEMORANDA. 

The First Regiment of Engineers, Missouri Volunteers, 
remained at Nashville during the month of Januarv and the fore 
part of February to perfect the reorganization of the Regiment. 
It was then ordered to complete the western portion (twenty miles) 
of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad. Duriiifi: the followino' 
two months the Regiment constructed several large bridges and 
trestlework — among others, one seventy-five feet high and nearly 
1,000 feet long ; laid the track, and constructed platforms, switches, 



HISTORICAL MEMOKANUA. 179 

turnouts, etc. At the same time small forts were built at Johuson- 
ville and Waverly. After the completion of the road the Regi- 
ment commenced the construction of blockhouses for the protection 
of the numerous bridges and trestlework, and had nearly completed 
them from Joiinsonville to Kingston Springs, when, about the mid- 
dle of September, it was transferred to the Department of the Ten- 
nessee, and ordered to report to Major-General Howard, before 
Atlanta. It participated in the flank march to Jonesboro and Love- 
joy, resulting in the evacuation of Atlanta, when it was ordered to 
Atlanta to construct an inner line of fortifications. It had com- 
pleted several forts on the south side of Atlanta, when General 
Sherman commenced his march to Savannah. The Eegiment had, 
in the meanwhile, by expiration of the term of service of a great 
many enlisted men, been reduced from 1,360 enlisted men to 600, 
and it was, therefore, necessary to consolidate the twelve companies 
into five. In consequence of this consolidation the Colonel two 
Majors and the line officers of seven companies were honorably mus- 
tered out (l^ovember 17, 1864), while the remaining five companies, 
under Lieutenant-Colonel Tweeddale, accompanied the Army of the 
Tennessee on its march to Savannah. 



Part IV. 



ROSTER 



FIRST ENGINEERS AND TWENTY- FIFTH MISSOURI 

INFANTRY. 




11^ HE names are in alphabetical order and numbered 
consecutively, "with rank following the name ; 
then the various companies served in by letter 
and reo'iment, whether the Engineer Reii:iment, 
the Twentv-fifth Infantry, or both, followed bv 
date and place of enlistment, date and place of 
dischai'ge, and the History, as far as known, lastly 
the i^resent address. Of many survivors the ad- 
dresses could not be found, nor anything learned about them. 

To condense as much as possible, the following abbreviations 
are used : 

Col., for Colonel; Lt.-Col., Lieutenant-Colonel; Maj., Major; 
Capt., Captain; Lt. or Lieut., Lieutenant; Sur., Surgeon; A. Sur., 
Assistant Surgeon; Sergt., Sergeant ; Cor.. Corporal; Q. M., Quarter- 
master ; Com., Commissary; Co., Company ; P., Private ; Eng., Engi- 
neer Regiment, 25th, Twenty-fifth Infantry ; e., enlisted ; disch., dis- 
charged ; dis., disability ; ad., present address; res., resigned. 

To find a comrade's history, recollect the name. To find 
where the name is forgotten, trace by the company letter, the 
oldest companies are first in order. It is in contemplation to issue 
an 'annual or bi-annual correction sheet of this Roster, The sur- 
vivors of the Engineer Regiment or the Twentv-fifth Infantrv find- 
ing any errors, omissions, or knowing of any changes of residence or 
deaths will please notify' the Historian. The address of every sur- 
vivor is wanted. Dr. W. A. Neal, 431 Main Street, Elkhart, Indiana 
Historian. 



THE ROSTER 



1 Abbott, Stewart, P. Go. G, 25th; e. Marcli 1, 18G2, Lexington, Mo. 
3 Abernath^v, Moses F,, P. Co. F, Eng. ; e. Se^jt. 21, 18G1, Dubuque, Iowa; 
disch. Feb., 1862, Otterville, Mo.; dis. lung disease. 

3 Abraham, :\Iichael, P. Co. A, Eng. ; e. July 2^), 18G1, St. Louis, Mo. 

4 Ackermau, Christian, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, ISIo. 

5 Ackerman, Joseph, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

6 Ackerson, Garrett, P. Cos. C, K, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

disch. Sept. 8, 1864, Madison (Ind.) Hospital; ad. Smithtield, 111. Was 
41 years old when enlisted; is a pensioner. 

7 ADAMS, CHARLES E., Lt.-Col. Eng.; e. October 31, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; res. May 5, 1863, for dis. — lung disease. IliHtonj — Was born in 
Lyons, N. Y., October 31, 1838. He was the youngest son of General W. K[. 
Adams, of the War of 1812; a brother, Colonel Alex. D. Adams, was a Col- 
onel of the Twenty-seventh New York. After graduating from college, in 
the fall of 1858, he removed to St. Louis, and when the war broke out 
entered the Fourth Regiment United States Reserve Corps, as Captain of 
Company A, May 8, 1861 ; assisted in the capture of Camp Jackson, 3Iay 10, 
1861; marched his Company to RoUa, May 16, 1861; thence to Waynesville 
until June 30th, garrisoning that place with Company B, Captain xV. G. 
Hequembourg; marched to Springfield, July 9th; thence to St. Louis, 
17th; thence to Pilot Knob, August 18, 1861; was mustered out at the 
end of the three months' term; October 31, ISGl, was appointed Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel First Missouri Engineers, and served with them until he was 
captured, about May 3, 1862, in front of Corinth, he was held by the 
enemy in various prisons until November he was exchanged; he was there 
with General B. M. Prentiss, who, with all his comrades in captivity, tes- 
tified that as in his Regiment he won the love and esteem of all with 
whom he came in contact for his gentlemanly deportment and devotion to 
their welfare; to some he seemed strict, and needlessly neat and rigorous 
in his police system, but they were soon brought to see that he was work- 
ing for the benefit of all, and loved him the more for his strictness. He 
was nearly starved, and his health broken in the Southern prisonc, and 
being unable for duty, resigned May 5, 1863; returned to St. Louis, and 
was employed in the County Clerk's office; died in St. Louis, ]Mo., .lanuary 
11, 1866, of lung disease, contracted in prison; was buried at Lyons, N. Y. 
His sister, Mrs. Henry ,L Ruggles, 524 West 153d street New York City, 
is the last of the family. 

8 Adams, John, Corp. Cos. D, F, B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 17, 1861. Greenville, 111. ; 

Veteran Feb. 4, 1864. ; disch. July 22, 1865, Louisville, Ky. ; was 25 years 
old when enlisted; ad. Greenville, 111. 

9 Adams, Eli D., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo.; ad. 

King City, Mo. 

10 Adams, Geo. AV., P. Co. D; e. May 1, 1864. 

11 Adams, Henry C, Corp. Cos. L 25th, H, D, Eng. ; e. Aug. 10, 1861, Pleasant 

View, Mo. ;' disch. .Tulv 22, 1865; ad. Flag Springs, >Io. 

12 Ad in , Stephen B., P. Co. D, 25tli; e. July 13. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

13 Agnew, ]\Iathew, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Julv 13, 1861, Leavenworth, Kan. 

14 Ahlers, Henry, P. Cos. II, 25th. C and D. Eng. ; e. Nov. 7, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; disch. July 22, 1805. 

15 Ainsworth, Lionel, P. Cos. I and C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Ft. Madison, Iowa. 



183 , THE__^FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

16 Alden, Andrew A., Sergt. Cos. A and E. Eng. ; e. July 24, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo. 

17 Alexander, C. S., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Nodaway Co., Mo. 

18 Alexander, Geo. L., P. Co. F, Eng. ; e. Sept. i), 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

19 Allen, James, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 7, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; ad. 

Newton Co., Mo. ( 

20 Allen, John, P. Co. C, Eng. ; e. Aug. 4, 18C1, Prairie City, 111. ; died Si. 

Louis, Mo., Aug. 24, 1861. 
31 Allen, Orlando, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. May 4, 1863, Andrew 
Co., Mo. ; disch. July 22, 1865. 

22 Allen, Thomas, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

23 Aliers, Henry, Sergt. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. ; disch. Sept. 28, 1864, Atlanta, Ga. 

24 Alternus, John, P. Cos. I and C, Eng. ; e. Nov. 5, 1862, Denmark, Iowa. 

25 Ambaugh, Peter, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 24, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

26 Aniliu, James, P. Cos. K, Dand C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Burlington, I@wa. 

27 Ambros, Frederick, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Nodaway Co., Mo. 

28 Amlung, Henry, P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. ; disch. July 22, 1865; is a pensioner. 

29 Amos, James E., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 4, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

30 Anderson, Benj. F., Sergt. Co. B and Com.-Serjjt. Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, 

Paris, 111. 

31 Anderson, Charles B., Sergt. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1861, New London, 

Iowa; dead. 

32 Anderson, David, P. Cos. K and B, Eng. ; e. Oct. 5, 1861, New London, 

Iowa; is a pensioner; ad. Ashland, Neb. 

33 Anderson, E. W., P. Cos. Band K, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

34 ANDERSON. JESSE I)., Lieut. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 

111. ; res. March 21, 1862. 

35 Anderson, John P., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 19, 1861, Burlington, 

Iowa. 

36 Anderson, ,Iohn, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 8, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. ; died at 

Mill Brook, Kan. 

37 Anderson, Robert, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and D, Eng. ; e. June 14, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

38 Anderson, Samuel F., P. Co. B, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

39 Anderson, Thomas, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 18, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

40 Andrew, Amiuidab, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1802, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

41 Andrew, Abivardi. P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. Aug. 14, 1862, Noda- 

way Co., Mo. ; disch. July 22, 1865. 

42 Appleby, Franklin, P. Cos. H and D, Eag. ; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Vermillion, 

111.; dead. 

43 Applel)y, Robert C, Cor. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Ken- 

tucky, III.; ad. Broctou, 111.; is a pensioner. 

44 Appleby, James, P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

45 Arheart, Charles, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Gentry 

Co., Mo. 

46 ARMSTRONdl, DAVID, Lt. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Avon, 

III.; res. Sept. 20, 1864, Atlanta, Ga. ; is a pensioner; ad. Avon, III. 

47 Armstrong, \Ym., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 18, 1863, Clay 

County, ]VIo. ; disch. July 22, 1865. 

48 Arnett, Wm., P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 2, 1861, Gentry Co., Mo. 

49 Arnold, Alex., P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

50 Arnoldin, Peter, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, ]Mo. 

51 Arterburu, Wra. J., P. Co. D. Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, III.; disch. 

Nov. 2, 1862, Jackson, Teun. ; dis. 

52 Ash, David C, P. Cos. II and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Paris, 111. 

53 Ash, Newton, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; c. July 28, 1801, St. Louis, Mo, 

54 Ashley, Bladen, Sergt. Co. I, 25th; e. July 27, 1861, Victoria, Mo. 



THE KOSTP]R. 183 

55 Ashwortli, Edward, P. Co. G, 25tli; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

5G Ashworth, Wm., P. Co. H, 25th; e. June 27, 1801, Kansas Citj^'Mo. 

57 Asp, John, P. Cos. I and C, Eu<r. ; e. Sept. 21, 1861, Toolsboro, Iowa. 

58 Atkins, Bartlett, P. Cos. C, 'i5th, A and B, Eng. ; e. Jan. 13, 1802, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; dead. 

59 Aughinbaugh, John, P. Co. C, 25th, A, Eng. ; e. Aug. 1, 1801, Easton, Mo. ; 

ad., St. Joseph. Mo. 

60 Austin, Hirann, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Aug. 1, 1801, Linneus, Mo. 
01 Austin, Moses, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1801, Cameron, Mo. 

62 Avery, Ahmson, P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Sept. 18, 1861, Iloseville, 111. 

63 Avra, Jonathan, P. Cos. B and K, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, III. 

64 Avra, Wm., P. Cos. B and K, Eng. ; e, July 28, 1801, Paris, 111. 

65 Averman, Jos., P. Co. K, 25th; e. Feb. 1, 1802, MontQomery County, Mo. 

66 Avlesbatt, Jas. J., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Feb. 18, 1864. 

67 Baer, Franz, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng. 

09 BAILEY, THOS. W. CAPT.. Cos. K, F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 
1801, Wapello, Iowa; disch. July 22, 1805; was brevetted major, June 12, 
1865; died near Burlinoton, Iowa, April, 1887. 

70 Bailey, Geo. W., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 28, 1863, Noda- 

way County, Mo.; disch. July 22. 1865. 

71 Bailey, Jas. M., P. Cos. B and K, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. ; disch. 

Aug. 4, 1864. 

72 Bailey, John, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. July 1, 1863, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; disch. July 22, 1865. 

73 Bacon, Ira, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861. Adrian, Mich.; disch. Aug. 

14, 1864; ad., Blissfield, Mich. 

74 Bacon, John W. Sergt. Cos. \ and E, Eng. ; e. Julv 21, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

75 Bacco, Felix, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Santa Fe, N. M. 

76 Bair, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1801, Kansas Citv, Mo. 

77 Baker, Andrew, P. Co. H, S5th: e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway County, Md. ; 

ad. Barnard, Mo. 

78 Baker, Bolin, P. Cos. F, 25th, Hand D,Eng.;e. Dec. 21,1861, St. Catharines,Mo.; 

disch- Dec. 31, 1864; ad. Given, Iowa. 
7.9 Baker, Brice V.. P. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1801, St. Louis, Mo., disch. Aug. 
1, 1864. 

80 Baker, Daniel B..P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Jan. 4, 1862, St. Catha- 

rines, Mo.; ad. Vancouver, Wash. Ter. 

81 Baker, Francis M., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 22, 1863, St. Cath- 

arines, Mo., ad. North Salem, Mo. 

82 Baker, Geo. W., P. Cos. F and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Bloomington, III. 

83 Baker, Geo. W., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e, Dec. 21, 1861, St. Catharines, 

Mo.; is a pensioner; ad. Sedgwick, Mo. 

84 Baker, Geo. H., P. Cos. F, 25th, H, Eng.; e. Dec. 21, 1861, St. Catharines, Mo.; 

ad. St. Catharines, Mo. 

85 Baker, James, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e, Dec. 21, 1861. St. Catharines, 

Mo. ; ad. Winigan, Mo. 

86 Baker, James, Jr., P. Cos. F.25th. H and D. Eng.: e. July 21, 1861. St. Catha- 

rines, Mo. ; ad. Adams, Ore. 

87 , Baker, James A., Cor. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e, Sept. 22, 1862, St. Cath- 

arines, Mo.; is a pensioner; ad. North Salem, Mo. 

88 Baker, James B.. P. Co. F, 25th. e. Mar. 20, 1862, St. Catharines, Mo. 

89 Baker. James R., Sergt. Cos. F, 25th, H. and D, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861. St. 

Catharines, Mo.; ad. Greencastle, Mo. 

90 Baker, John, P. Cos. A. andE. Enc; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

91 Baker. Lafayette, Sergt. Cos. F,^25th, H and D, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, St. 

Catharines, Mo.; ad. Vancouver, Wash. Ter. 

92 Baker, Lucius P., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. ; is a pen- 

sioner; ad. Adrian, Mich. 

94 Baker, Morris, P. Cos. F. 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Dec. 21, 1861, St. Catharines, 

Mo. 

95 Baker, Robert J., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 1861, St. Catharines, Mo. 



184 THE FIKST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

96 Baker, Samuel T., Corp. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 21, 1861, St. Louis. Mo. 

97 Baker, Sylvester, P. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, McGregor, Iowa; 

disch. Oct. 31, 1864. 

98 Baker, Wm., P. Co. C, 25th; e. March 2, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

99 Baker, Wm., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 1861, St. Catharines, Mo.; ad. Van- 

couver, Wash. Ter. 

100 Baker, Wm., Jr., P. Co. F, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, St. Catharines, Mo. 

101 Baker, Wm., Jr., Corp. Co. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 19. 1862; disch. 

July 22, 1865; is a pensioner; ad. Knobel, Clay County, Ark. 

102 Ball, Oscar C, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Dubuque, lovira; ad.Holden, 

Mass. 

103 Ballard, Thos., P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

104 Ballard, Wm.. P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

105 Balsey, Geo. H.. P. Cos. B, K and A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; is a 

pensioner; ad. Vermillion, 111. 

106 Balzecker, Fred, P. Co. B. 25lh; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

107 Barman, W. W., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

108 Bamblitts, John W., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861. 

109 Bancot, Nicholas, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

110 Bank, James E., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 16, 1861, McGregor, Iowa. 

111 Bannister, Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 12, 1862. Gentry Co., Mo. 

112 Barker, Chas. F., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. 

Adrian, Mich. 

113 Barker, Chas. N., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 2, 1862. 

114 Barnes, Cyrus, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 28th, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

115 Barnes, David, P. Co. D, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

116 Barnes, Elisha, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

117 Barnes, Harrison, P. Co. I), 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

118 Barnes, James, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

119 Barnes, Thos. J., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. .Joseph, Mo. 

120 Barney, Joseph, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Rushville, III.; ad. 

Canton, 111. 

121 Barrett, Henry, Sergt. Co. F, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
123 Barrett, Wilson, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 30, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

123 Barrington, Richard, Sergt. Co. G, Ena;.; e. Sept. 13 ,1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

124 Barrow, Wm. H, Sergt. Cos. D, F and B, Eng. ;e. Aug. 17, 1861; vet.; e. Feb. 

4, 1864; disch. July 22, 1865; ad. Carlyle, 111. 

125 Barrow, Samuel, P. Cos. A and E. Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

126 Barshaw, John, P. Cos. K and B, Ene.; e. Sept. 28, 1861 Wapello, Iowa. 

127 Barkotf, William, P. Cos. K and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Wapello, Iowa; 

ad. Wapello, Iowa. 

128 Bartholomew, Peter, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. .Joseph, Mo. 

129 Bartlett, Phin., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph Mo. 

130 Barto, .James S., P. Cos. H and D, Eng; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Kentucky, 111. 

131 Bassard, .Joseph, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng.; e. June 5, 1862. 

132 Batcheller, James W, Musician, Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 2, 1861, Oregon, Mo.; ad. 

206 8. 17th St., St. Joseph, Mo. 

133 Bates, Wm. H.. P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; died St. 

Louis, Mo., Sept. 20, 1861. 

134 Banker, Geo. W., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 5. 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

135 Baucum, James, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Independ- 

ence. Mo. 

136 BAYNE, (iEO. (t.. Lt. Cos. C, 25th and A, Eng.; e. June 16, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. ;ad. Denver, Colo. 

137 Bay, Adam, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13. 1861, St. .Joseph, Mo. 

138 Bays, Stewart B., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Avon, 111.; disch. 

Nov. 4, 1864; ad. Jjewistown, 111. 
189 Beal, Dexter, P. Co. F, Eng.;e. Oct. 18, 1861, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; disch. 
Aug. 13, 1863, Vicksburg, Miss., dis. 

140 Beale, James, Sergt. Co. C, 25th; e. July 12, 1861. 

141 Beakey, David C, P. Co. E, Eng. :e. March 2.1862. o .o^o 

142 Beauchamp, Sanford, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and C, Eng.; e. October 3, 1863, 

Clinton, Mo.; disch. July 22, 1865. 



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143 Beaucbamp, Thos. J., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 14, 1862, Clinton, Mo.; disch. 

July 22, 1865, Louisville, Ky. 

144 Bradbury, Geo. W.. P. Co. A, 25tli; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

145 Beck, William, P. Cos. G, 25th, Laud E,Eng.; e. June 20, 1861, Wyandotte, 

Kas. ; ad. Argentine, Kas. 

146 Beckner, John. P. Co. D, 25th; e. Julv 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

147 Bebee, Jeremiah S., P. Cos. C and B,'Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

disch. Auff. 14, 1864. 

148 Beeler, GeoriL, P. Cos. E, 35th, and G, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, White Cloud, 

Kas ; a pensioner; ad. Logan, Kas. 

149 Bebee, Geo. W., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. 3Iarch 3, 1863, Vermillion, 111. 

150 Beeman, Wm., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.T e. July 20,1861, St. Louis, Mo.; draws 

a pension. 

151 Behle, Jacob, P. Co. B, 25th, e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

152 Bell, James M., Cor. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e., Oct. 10, 1861, Olney, 111.; disch. 

Oct. 31, 18G4; apensioner; has a small farm; a broom-maker; ad., Olney 111. 

153 Bell, John H., Sergt. Cos. D and F.Eng.; e.Aug. 15,1861; Olney, 111.; disch. 

Auir. 18, 1864; ad. West Plains, 3Io. 

154 Bavs,"^ Frank. P. Cos. C and B, Eng-.; e. Aug. 4, 1861; Avon, 111. 

155 BELL, JOHN A., Lieut. Co. H, 25th; e. A^ig. 14, 1861; Maryville, Mo. 

156 Bell, Wm., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Sept. 22, 1861;'' Oregon, 111. 

157 Belzer, Richard, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Feb. 21; 1862; St. Catharines, Mo. 

158 Benel, James, Musician (fifer), Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 18, 1861; Prairie 

Citv, 111. 

159 Benei, Adam, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861; Prairie City, 111.; disch. 

Aug 14, 1864; ad. Prairie City, 111. 

160 Bene], Robert M., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861; Prairie City, 

111 ; ad , Moline. 111. 

161 Becket, T. S. S.. P. Cos. H, 25th and M, Eng.; ad. Galva, Kas. 

162 Benedict, Benj. W., P. Cos. C and B, Eng,; e. Sept. 24, 1863; Pocahontas, 

Tenn.; ad. Pontiac, 111. 

163 Bender, Peter, P. Cos. L and I. Eng. 

164 Bender, David, W., P. Co. H, 25th ;"'e. Aug. 14, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

165 Bender, Philip, P. Co. H, 25th and M. Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Holt Co., Mo.; 

ad. Maitland, Mo. 

166 Benne, Joseph, P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Oct. 5, 1861, New London, Iowa; dead; 

widow ad. Birmingham, Iowa. 

167 Bennie, Andrew, Cor. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861. 

168 Bennett, Alfred. P. Co. D, 25ih; e. July 2, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

169 Bennett, Geo. D., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; ad. 

Dubuque, Iowa. 

170 Benson, Christ, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. 

171 Benton, Geo. D , P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 1, 1862, Stewartsville, Mo. 

172 Berdel, Wendlin, Cor. Cos. C. and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

vet. Jan. 18, 1864. 

173 BERGHOFF, JOHN T., Sur., 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

Was born in Germany, immigrated to the United States, reaching Galveston. 
Tex.. April 15, 1846, and October 16, 1846, reached St. Louis, Mo. Having 
studied pharmacy in Germany, he opened a drug store in 1850, at the same time 
attending lectures in the Medical Department of the University of St. Louis, 
graduating JIaich, 1855; serving as assistant in the St. Louis City Hospital 
for three years. In 1860 he moved to St. Joseph, Mo., and was one of the 
400 original Republicans who voted for President Lincoln, and whose names 
were published in the newspapers that sympathized with the Rebellion. The 
Secession element greatly preponderated in St. Joseph at that time, and it 
was not safe to express Republican sentiments. When the war broke out he 
entered the service of the then called Thirteenth 3Iissouri Infantry, Colonel 
Everett Peabody. In the battle of Lexington. ]\Io., he was taken prisoner, 
September 21, 1861; paroled and sent with the wounded to St. Louis. He 
was again taken prisoner on his way home by the Quantrell gang, at Cen- 
tralia. Mo., but showing his parole from General Price. wa.« released. During 
the fall and winter the Regiment was reorganized as the Twenty- fifth Mis- 
souri Infantry, and he again rejoined as Surgeon. On the 6th day of April, 



1.86 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

tlie first (l;iy of tlie hatth.' of Sliiloli, lie was again taken prisoner, taken to 
Corinth and placed in charge of the wounded prisoners. Whllethere he was 
successful In negotiating an agreement (given elsciwliere) allowing freedom to 
tlio surgeons and wounded. After release he served with the 'I'vventy-hfth 
until its consolidation with the First Missouri Engineers, his disehargedating 
January 30, IHM, at Nashville, Tenn. He was afterward commissioned Sur- 
geon or the Eighty-seventh Missouri {'Enrolled Militia, and in IHOf) a Surgeon 
of the Missouri Militia, lie was for two years, ISOH and 1H70, coroner of 
Jiuchanan county, Mo. In iHtW api>ointed United States Tension Examining 
Surgeon, serving until 1884, when the Democratic administration came into 
l)0wer. He has held, since 1H7!), the chair of profe.ssor of surgery in the 
Northwestern Medieval College at St. ,Iosei)h, Mo. He lives at No. 215 South 
Sixth street, St. Joseph, Mo. 

174 Bergen, Abe A., P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 18C1, St. Louis; ad. Stone 

Fort, 01. 

175 J5erry, Isaac N., P. Cos. K, I) and C, Eng.; e. Sept. -30, 1801, Hurlingtou, 

Iowa; is a pensioner; ad. South Puel)l(), Colo. 
170 l}erry, John, P. Co. C, 25lh: e. Feb. 22, 1802, St. Josei)h, Mo. 

177 Bertseh, Joseph. P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13. 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 

178 I'.KSIKU. JOHN ('., Lieut., Cos. II and I), Eng.: e. July 28, 1801, Paris, HI. 

lli.st.ori/— Was in business at Vermillion, 111., when the war broke out; assisted 
in raising Companies B and H of the original Missouri Engineer Regiment; 
was appointed a Sergeant in (Joni]iany I?, and S(;i)tend)er 15, 1801, First 
Tjieutenant of Company II. On consolidation of the Regiment, was trans- 
ferred with his(!ompany to Com|)any I), and was mustered out October \)\, 
1804. He rendered ellicient service at the battle of New Madrid, March 14, 
1802. The evening before the battle, under special orders from General 
Pope, he rode from the battle-field to Sikestown, twenty-two miles, in one 
hundred and thirt.y minutes, for a supply of shot and shell, retunnng with 
it, before daylighl ; went right into the trenches, where he had charge of the 
ammunition at the left Hank magazine ; he had started without supper, got no 
breakfast or <linner the next day, and was complimented in orders by Gen- 
eral Pope. He is now in good circumstances; draws a ju'nsion; ad. Ver- 
million, HI. 
17!t Bessler, Philip, Sergt. Co. D, 25th ; e. Sept. 25. 1802, St. Louis. 

180 Best, David, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 25, 1802, Holt Co., Mo. 

181 Bethards, James, P. (.'o. I), 25th ; c. Nov. 11, 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 

182 Beyer, Edward, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. 

183 Beyer, Joseph, I'. Cos. L and I, Eng. 

184 Biggar, Thomas, P. (Jo. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1801, Dubuque. Iowa; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Nashua, Iowa. 

185 BiJleter, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 

180 Billings, James P., P. Co. II, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1801. Nodaway Co., Mo. 

187 Bills, Jonathan, P. V,o. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1801, Adrian, Mif^h. 

188 lUSSKLIi. JOSIAH W.. (Jol. Eng. ; e. July 20, 1801, St. Louis; res. June 2, 

1803; ad. 12 Globe l,)ldg., St. Paul, Minn. /A/.v/ton/— Colonel Bis.sell was 
born at Rociiester, N. Y., May 12, 1818; enlisted as a private in one 
of the companies of the "Home Guard " at St. Louis the day after the 
firhig upon Fort Sumter; elected Second Lieutenant same day, the next day 
First Lieutenant; a day or two afterward was appointed Quartermaster upon 
the stall' of General Sweeny; soon aft.erward was api)ointed Assistant 
Adjutant-General to sauK! General with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; about 
the same time was commissioned (%)loiiel of Tenth Missouri Volunteers, but 
retained tliis latter commission merely for the jiurjio.se of holding the place 
for ('hester Harding, who was at that time the confidential secretary of the 
Governor of Missouri, and wished to take the field as soon as the Regiment 
could be filled up and org.ani/ed bv the Lieutenant-Colonel. 

18'.> ItlSSKMi. .I(>SI.\II II., Lt. Co. C, Eng.; e. Nov. 12. 1802: res. June 20. 1863; 
was a son of Col. J. W. Bissell and acted as Assistant Adjutant; isaprosper- 
ous lawyer; No. 52 Major Block, La Salle St., C'hicago, 111. 

190 Bisslnger. Mathins, P. Cos. K and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1801, Wapello, Iowa. 

li)l Bittman, Peter, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Dec. 15th, 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 



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TIIK KOSTER. 187 

I'.ivins, Thomas K., P. Co. C, Eng. ; e. Aug. 4, 1801, Prairie City, III.; wounded 
Willi loss of leg at, Fariningtou, Miss., May 28, 1802; discli. Jefleisoii Bar- 
raclis July 28, 1862; is a wagon-maker by trade; carries ou a shop at Prairie 
City, III. 

193 Eixler, Israel, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; c. Oct. 5, 1801, Trenton, Iowa; ad. 

llogers, Benton Co., Ark. 

194 IJixler, Levi, P. Cos. I and C, P^ng. ; e. Nov. 6, 1861, Trenton, Iowa; ad. Tren- 

ton, Iowa. 
19r) Black, Alex., P. Co. I. 25tli; e. Aug. 12, 1801. Gallatin, Mo. 
190 Black, John G., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. ;3, 1801, Gallatin, M.x 

197 Black, Leroy, P. Cos. I. and C, Eng.; e. 8ept. 11, 1801, llushville, lil.; 

pensioner; ad. Monroe City, Mo. 

198 Black, Samuel, P. Cos. I. 2r;ih. II and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 3, 18G1. 

199 Black, William, P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1801, Paris, III. 

200 Blackwendt, Chns., P. Cos. G iuul I, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 18G1, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; pensioner: ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

201 Bladen, Ashley, Sergt. Cos. 1, 2r)tli, II and D, Eng.; e. July 27, 1861, Victoria, 

Mo.; vet. Fel). 5, 1864. 

202 Blagg, Francis M., P. Co. H. 25th; e. Sept. 13, 1802, Nodaway Co., Mo.; ad. 

Barnard, Mo. 

203 Bhigg, Geo. VV., Corp. Cos. 11, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Nov. 10, 1861, Guil- 

ford, Mo.; ad. Barnard, ]Mo. 

204 Bianchard, John, P. Co F., Eng.;e. Sept. 14, 1801, Cedar Falls, Iowa; pen- 

sioner; ad. Blencoe, Iowa. 

205 Bianchard, Geo. A., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1802, Grand Rapids 

Mich. 

200 Blake, Asa W., P. Co. K. 25th; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Ilawleyville, Iowa. 

207 Biandy, John M., P. Co E, Eng.;e. Nov. 20, 1801. 

208 Blanton, Anton, P. Co. G, 25ih; e. June 13, 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 

209 Blayney, John M., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 18, 1802, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

210 liledsoe, John, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

211 Bledsoe, VVm., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

212 Bliss, William, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1801, Avon, III.; died Jefferson 

Chj, Mo., of typhoid fever, ^^ov. 17, 1801. 

213 Blossom, Wm. A.. P. Co. F, Eag.;e. Sept. 21, 1861, Chiliicollie, 111.; disch. 

January, 1803, for loss of thumi) coupling cars at Holly Springs, Miss., 
Deceml)er, 1802. 

214 Babington, Jeremiah, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 21, 1801, Holt Co., Mo. 

215 Bock, Christian, P. Cos. G and 1, r.ng.; e. Sej)t. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; a pensioner; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

216 Boden, Wilker.son, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 11, 1801, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

217 Bodington, John. P. Co. C, 25tii; e. Nov. 28. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

218 Boehm, Chas., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

219 Bolen, Patrick, P. Co. K. 25th. an<l G, Eng.; e. June 17, 1801, St. .Toseph, Mo. 

220 Bolin Wm. H., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Feb. I,l862, Andrew (Jo., Mo. 

221 Bolton, James. P. Co. G. 25th; e. Mareh 1, lsr.2, Gentry Co.. Mo. 

222 Bond Richard A., P. Cos. II and I), Eng., e. Aug. 22, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

deserted. 

223 Bones, Royal M., (.'or. Cos C and B, Ena;.; e. Sept. 0, 1861, Prairie City. III. 

224 1J(>(>K,J0HN <!., Sur., Eng.; e. Oct 3, 1803, Corinth, Miss., died Stewartsville. 

Mo., April 10. 1882. 

225 P.oon, Jo.seph, P. Cos. H and 1), Eng. ; c. Sept. 20, 1801, Paris, 111. ; ad. Par- 

sons, Kas. 

226 Bosteder, C. C, P. Cos. F. C and B, Eng ; e. Sept. 25, 1861, Epworth, Iowa ; 

pensioner; ad. Laporte, Neb. 

227 Botdger, Wm., P. Co. D, 25th.; e. July i:i, 1801, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

228 Bowers, John, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 30, 18<il. St. Jo.sepli, Mo. 

229 Bowman. A. J., P. Co. I). 25th; e. Feb. 12, 1802. St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

230 Boyd, Alex. W., P. Co. A. 25th; e. July 28. IHOt, St. Jo,sei)h, Mo. 

231 Boyle, James, P. Co. A, 25th ;e. Feb. 15, 1802. St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

232 Boyle, Peter, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 19, 1801. St, Jo.seph, Mo. 

233 Boyle. Wm., P. Co. C. 25th: e. Dec. 11. 1801, St. Joseph. Mo. 

234 Boyles, Jeff., P. Co. I, 25th: e. Aug. 28. 1801. Cameron, Mo 



188 THE FIKST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

235 Boylau, Martin, P. Cos. C aud B, Eng. ; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111. ; pen- 
sioner; ad. Swan Creek, 111 
336 BDStwick, — , P Co. — , S.jth; ad. Oregon, Mo. 

237 IJRACKETT, (i. B.. Capt. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861; Denmark, 

Iowa; pensioner; ad. Denmark, Iowa; is president of Iowa State Horticult- 
ural Society. 

238 Brakey, David C, P. Co. G, 25th; e. March 20, 1862; St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. St. 

Calhaiines, Mo. 

239 Bradley, Frank M., P. Cos. I and C, Ene.; e. Sept. 30, 1861; Burlington, Iowa. 

240 Bradley, Smith A., P. Co. F, Eng. ; e. Aug 28, 1861; Dubuque, Iowa; died 

Fel>ruary. 1862, at Otterville, Mo., trora effects of poison in liquor, at 
Sedalia, M(k 

241 BKADSHAW, JA3IES T., Lieut. Co^^. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; ad. Lebanon, 

Mo.; a newspaper pulili-sher. 

242 Bradshaw, .Nelson, P. Co. A, 25tli; e. Jan. 1, 1862; St. Joseph, Mo. 

243 BKADSHAW, KOBERT C, Capt. Co. A, 25th; e. May. 16, 1861; promoted 

Col. 44th Mo. Inf. Sept. 26, 1864; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. ^ 

244 Biadshaw, Thomas, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Jan. 18, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. 

Holton, Kas. 

245 Brainard, Menzo, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.: e. Sept. 6, 1861, Avon, 111. 

246 P.rainard, Wm., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Avon. 111. 

247 BRAMBLE. J. J., Lieut. Co. D, 25lh;e. June 4, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; killed 

in Battle Shiloh, Apr. 6, 1862. 

248 Brandeberry, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 4, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

249 BRAS, FRANK, Lt. Cos. B and K. Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 

dead . 

350 Bras, Horace T., Corp. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

ad. Dexter, i\Iich. 

351 Brasington, Wm. H., Sergt. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 19, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo ; dead 
253 Bray, John R. C, Corp. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1861. Otterville, 
Mo.; a pensioner; ad. Mt. Vernon, 111. 

253 BREY, JULIUS, Asst. Sur. 25th; e. Mar. 5, 1862; disch. dis. July 23, 1863. 

254 Breintr, L(Hiis, P. Cos. C and B. Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Prairie City, III. 

255 Breeden, William, P. Co. E, Eng.;e. Julyl3, 1861, Adrian, Mich. ; pen- 

sioner; ad. Adrian, ]\Iich. 

256 Brennan, Alvin J., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Oct. 5. 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

257 Brennan, Geo. W., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Oct. 16, 1863, Gallatin, Mo. 

258 Brennan, Jerry. P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
359 Brennan, John, P. Co. G. 25th; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

260 Brennen, Owen, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 10, 1862. Kansas City, Mo. 

261 Bridges, Jesse D., P. Cos. K, 25ai, G and C, Eng.; e. Ap'r. 15, 1863, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

262 Bricker, Nelson F., Sergt Co. F, 25t]); e. Jan 1, 1882, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. 

St. Joseph, Mo 

263 Brinkley. Wm. T., P. Co. G, 25th; e. March 1, 1862, Platfshurg, Mo. 

264 Brinkhoff, Fred, Sergt. Cos. G and I, Eng. ; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

265 Brisbin, Edwin. P. Co. E. 25th. 

266 Bri.storf, John, P. Co. F, Eng ; e. Aug. 28. 1861, Gilbertville, Iowa; died in 

Regimental Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.. Oct. 1864. 
207 Bristow, Geo. \V., Sergt. Cos. I and C. Eng. ;e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa. 
He has been in County Clerk's office, Des Moines county, several years; ad. 
Des ]\[oin' s, Iowa. 

268 Broderick, Wm., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Uo. 

269 Broecker, Bernard, P. Co.G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

270 Breuninsr. Fredk., Cor. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, I\Io.; pensioner; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

271 Breuning, Louis, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo., df^ad. 

272 BROOKS, JOSHUA P.. Lt. Cos. D, I, K and E, Eng.: e. Sept. 15, 1861, 

Denmark, I(»wa; dead. 

273 Bronscht, Chas. G., P. Co. A, 25tli; e. June 17, 1861, Holt county, Mo. 



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274 BROWN, B. F., Lt. Co. E, Eng.; e. August, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; res. 

Otterville, Mo., Dec. 24,1861. 

275 Browu, Calviu, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 19, 1861. 

276 Brown, Chas. W., P. Co. E. Eng.; e.^Aug. 18, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Carthage, Mo. 

277 Brown, David C, P. Cos. D, 25th A and B, Eng.; e. Nov. 30, 1861, St. 

Joseph. Mo.; veteran, Feb. 1, 1864. 

278 Browu, E. F., P. Co. D, 25th ; e. Dec. 24, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

279 Brown, Frank M., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 15, 1862, Stewartsville, Mo. 

280 BROWN, KILTER W., Lieut. Cos. B and A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 

111.; ad. Pratt Center, Kas. 

281 Brown, James, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

282 Brown, John D., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 16, 1861, Wyandotte, Kas. 

283 Brown, Marcus L., Cor. Cos. K, 25th, Gand C, Eng,; e. Feb. 2, 1862, Haw- 

leyville, Iowa. 

284 Brown, Marcus M., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Nov. 26, 1861, Doug- 

las, Mo.; ad. King City, Mo. 

285 Brown, Oliver P., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Feb. 17, 1862, Polk Co., Iowa. 

286 Brown, liobert, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa. 

287 BROWN, STEPHEN S., Lieut. Cos. G, 25th, L and A, Eng.; e. Jan. 23, 

1862, Omaha, Neb. Jlistoru — Was born at Schenevus, Otsego County, New 
York, November 14, 1828 ; was a delegate to the first Free Soil Convention that 
nominated Maitin Van Buren, which nomination lost New York to the 
Democrats ; defeating General Cass. He afterwaids resided in Missouri, 
Iowa and Nebraska, and was living in St. James, Cedar County, Nebraska, 
when the war broke out. Considering it his duty to enlist and do his part in 
saving the Union, he traded his wheat crop for a horse, saddle and bridle; he 
went tirst to Sioux City, Iowa, then to Omaha, where he enlisted in Captain 
Wm. Millar's Company G, Tweuty-flfth Missouri Infantry and followed the 
fortunes of that Regiment to Shi'loh; was out with Major Powell and a 
squad at the front on the evening of the 5th of April, found the enemy at 
the first house; Major Powell not being satisfied, they returned the same 
night and about two miles at the front were fired on from the timber while 
crossing a field; several were killed and wounded, who were brought back 
to camp, just at sunrise and as the long roll was sounded calling all to arms. 
Thus the Twenty-fifth Missouri furnished the first victims at the battle of 
Shiloh. He was promoted to Sergeant for his travery on the first line of 
battle, being the last one of the Brigade to fall back, not then until ordered 
to do so by his superior officer. During the siege of Corinth he was sick with 
malarial fever, down until the middle of July, and not able for duty until 
October, 1862. From that time until muster out he was constantly on duty. 
January 1, 1864, on consolidation with the First Missouri Engineer Regiment, 
he was promoted from Orderly Sergeant to Second Lieutenant, and to First 
Lieutenant January 27, 1865. He was absent on furlough at the muster 
out July 22, 1865, at St. Louis, but returned and was mustered out at St. 
Louis in August, 1865; is in business at Bath, 111.; address, Bath, 111. 

288 Brown, Thomas B., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1861, Rushville, 111.; 

ad. Industr3^ 111. 

289 Brown, Thos. H., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. Julv 28, 1861. Paris, 111. 

290 Brown, Wm. W.. Sergt. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Douglas, Mo ;ad. Kansas 

City, Mo. 

291 Broyles, Jefferson, P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D. Eng.; e. Aug. 26, 1861, Cameron. 

Mo. ; vet. Feb. 1,1864. 

292 Broyles, Wm., P. Co. H, 25th; e. June 1, 1863, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

293 Bruce, James, P. Co. G, 2oth; e. June 26, 1861, Leavenworth, Kas. 

294 Brummet, Svrene, P. Cos. H, D and C. Eng.; e Aug. 8, 1862, Vermillion, 111. 

295 Brunk, Elijah E., Cor. Cos. I, 25th. H and D, Euff.; e. Dec. 7, 1861, Galla- 

tin, Mo.; vet. Feb. 9, 1864; ad. Linwood, Kas. 

296 Brunk, Samuel. Sr., P. Co. I. 25th; e. Aug. 20. 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

297 Brunk, Sam'l, Jr., P. Co. I, 25th: e. ,Ian. 1. 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

298 Brunk, Wm. C, P. Co. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1861. Gallatin, Mo. 

299 Brummett, Andrew, P. Cos. B and K, Ensr. ; e. Aug. 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

300 Buch, John, P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861. 



190 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

301 Buckingham, Geo., Sergt. Co. K, 25th; e. Nov. 11, 1861, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

302 Buckingham, John F., P. Cos. K, 25th. G and C, Eng.; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa. 

303 Buckingham, Joseph, P. Co. K, 25th; e. Nov. 29, 1861, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

304 Buckley, Jas., P. Cos. D, H and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis; dead. 

305 Buckley, Michael, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. 

306 Buckley, Michael, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 28, 1862, St. Cath- 

arines, Mo. 

307 Budin, Geo., P. Cos. D. 25th, A and B,-Eng.; e. July 28, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

308 Bull, Geo. T., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and L), Eng. ; e. April 14, 1863, St. Catharines, 

Mo. ; ad. Vancouver, Wash. Ter. 

309 Burns, Daniel, P. Co. G, 25th; e June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

310 Burns, Daniel, 2d. P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 10, 1861, Westport, Mo. 

311 Burns, Edward, P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Westport. Mo. 

312 Burns, Wm. Mc. K.,P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. Jan. 2, 1862, Sonora,Mo. 

313 Burge, Wm. H., P. Cos. K and F, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1861, New London, Iowa. 

314 Burget. Aaron J., Sergt. Cos. D and C, Eng. ; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111. ; ad. 

Bloomtield, Ind. 

315 Burke, John, P. Co. E, Eng; e, Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. Ottawa Lake, 

Mich. 

316 Burnett, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 25, 1861, Wyandotte, Kas. 

317 Burr, Stephen O., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Oct 27, 1861. 

318 Busey, James, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 12, 1862, Brown Co. Kas. 

319 Busenbark, John, Sergt. Cos. E and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

320 Bush, Wm. C, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Galesburg, 111 

321 Burtner, Geo. T., P. Cos. H and D, Eng,; e. Oct. 1, 1861, New- Goshen, Ind. 
'612 Burton, Otis H., P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 10, 1861, Rushvil'le, Mo. 

323 Burton, St. CiairT., Cor. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111.; 

ad. Nineveh, Ind. 

324 Butler, Benj., P. Co. II, 25th ; e. Nodaway Co., Mo. 

325 Butler, Cyrus W.. P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; died 

typhoid fever, Otterville, Mo., Oct. 17, 1861. 

326 Butler, Elias, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Feb. 17, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

327 Butler, Jas., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

328 Butler, Oliver P., P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 7, 1861, Savannah, Mo. 

329 Buttertield, Jas. L., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

330 KUZARl). IJENJ. F. Capt., Cos. F and K, 25ih, and H and D,Eng.; e. Aug. 

12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. History — The Captain with others assisted in 
raising Company F for Colonel Peabody's Battalion at St. Joseph, Missouri 
and vicinity followed the fortunes of that Company until December 8, 1862, 
when he was promoted First Lieutenant Company F, Twenty-fifth Missouri, 
and May 3, 1863, was promoted to Captain of Company K. Twenty-fifth; was 
transferred to Company H, First Missouri Engineers at the consolida- 
tion, January 1,1864, and when the Regiment was consolidated into a battalion 
of five companies he was assigned to the captaincy of Company D ; wasmus- 
tered out on expiration of his term of enlistment, at Savannah, Ga. , January 
4, 1865. During the march to the sea he had charge of one section of the 
ponton train. Since the war he has been in the West and Texas in the 
cattle-raising business, and is vice-president and manager of the Neuces 
Land and Cattle Company. The ranch is near Uvalde, Uvalde County, Texas; 
is considered wealthy: address St. Joseph, Mo. 

331 Buzard, Michael, G., Sergt. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1861, 

Oregon, Mo.;disch, July 22, 1865. 

332 Buzzell, .Joseph. P. Cos. C, 25th, A, Eng.; e. Aug. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

333 Byington, John, P. Co. K, 25th, e. April 15, 1862. 

334 Bradshaw, Thomas, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Jan. 2, 1862, St Joseph, Mo. 

335 Byrd, Harmon, P. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1861, Trenton, Iowa; ad. 

Audubon, Iowa. 

336 Bronkhorst, John, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo ; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

337 BIN(iHA>I, JOHN, C, Capt. Co. C, Van Horn's Battalion; e. June 27, 1861, 

not accounted for after Lexington. 

338 Cain, Eben H., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e, July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 



THE KOSTER. " 191 

339 Cahill, Johu, P. Cos. A and K, Eng.; e. July 20 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

340 Caldwell, David, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., 

Mo. 

341 Caldwell, Francis M., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e, May 1, 1863, Chilli- 

cothe, Mo. 
343 Caldwell, Thomas, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

343 (!AHILL, DANIEL, Lieut. Cos. B, C, Van Horn's Battalion; e. June 27, 1861; 

not accounted for after Lexington. 

344 Call, Thos. C, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e, April 4, 1863, Chillicothe, 

Mo. 

345 Callahan, Charles, P. Cos. H and D, Eng ; e, Oct. 15, 1861, Paris, HI.; dead. 

346 Callahan, Dennis, Musician, Cos. A and B, Eng.; e, Oct. 1, 1861, St. Louis,. 

Mo.; ad. 2825 Madison ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

347 Callahan, Edward, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 25, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

348 Callicott, John T., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa. 

349 Callicott, Wm. R., P. Cos. K. 25th, G andC, Eng.; e. Oct. 14, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa. 

350 Cambe, Lewis D., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. June 25, 1864. 

351 Camp, Fredrick, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

ad. Lebanon, 111. 

352 Campbell, Francis, Cor. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Terre Haute, 

lud. 

353 Campbell, Frank, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. Julv 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

354 Campbell, Hamilton, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 9, 1861, Bloomiugton, 111.; 

deserted. 

355 Campbell, Heary, P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111., ad. Vermillion, 

111. 

356 Campbell, Mathew D., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Nov. 28, 1861, Sedalia, Mo. 

357 Canton, Patrick, P. Co. B, Eng ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; pensioner; ad. 

Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

358 Can.sy, Peter C, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng,; e. July 10, 1861, Kansas 

Citv, Mo.; ad. Causy, Dak. 

359 Carback, Henry, P. Co. E. 25th; e. Sept. 21, 1862, Atchison, Mo. 

360 Carey, Abel O.. P. Co. G, 25th; e. Jan. 6, 1862, Omaha, Neb. 

361 CareV, Albert P., P. Co. G, 25lh; e. Jar. 6, 1862, Omaha, Neb. 

362 CARLIN, JAMES, Lieut. Cos. K and B,Eng.; e. Sept. 10, 1861, Burlington, 

Iowa; dead. 

363 CARLILE, HENRY €., Lieut. Co. C, 25th; e. Feb. 1. 1863, Sheiburne, Mo.; 

disch. Jan. 1, 1864. 

364 Carleton, Chester M., Sergt. Cos. D and C, Eng ; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; a pensioner; ad. Haverhill, N. H. 

365 Carolus, Geo., Cor. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St Joseph, Mo. 

366 Carr, Charles, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; a pensioner; 

ad. Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio. 

367 Carr, Jas., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24,1861. Wyandotte, Kas. 

368 Carr, Robert, P. Cos. K, 25th, G, Eng. ; e. May 26, 1863. 

369 Carriker, Jacob, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Jan. 27, Bucklin, Mo. ; ad. 

St. Catharines, Mo. 

370 Carroll, Dennis, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Feb. 10, 1863, Vermillion, 111.; 

a pensioner; ad. St Mary's, Ind. 

371 Carroll, Ferdinand, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, Lexington, Mo. 

372 Carroll, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo., 

373 Carroll, John, P. Co. G,25th: e. Jan. 9, 1862. Kan.sas Citv, Mo. 

374 Carroll, J. J., P. Cos. B and K. Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

375 Carroll, Price L., P. Cos. H, 25th, G, and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Noda- 

way Co., ]\Io. 

376 Carroll, Wm. P., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1801. 

377 Carroll, Wm. R., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111; died in 

1887. 

378 Carson, Lafayette, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.: e. July 20. 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

379 Carver, Addison, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 8. 1861, Paris, 111; died 

June, 1862, from wound of foot in action at Fariugton, ^liss.. May 28, 1862. 



192 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINP:KKS. 

380 Carter, Erastus, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1801, Adrian, Mich.; a pensioner; 

ad. ytate Soldiers' Home, Grand Rapids. Mich. 

381 Carter, John A., P. Co. H, 2oth;e. Mar. 28, 1862. 

382 Carter, Philip, P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 22, 1861, Camden, 111.; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Hannil)al, Mo. 

383 Carter, G. W., P. Co. C, Eng.; ad. Le.ster, Kas. 

384 Carteron, Edward, P. Co. A, 2oth; e. June 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

385 Case, Aaron P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. Julv 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

386 Case, C. C, Sergt. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e."july 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

387 Case, Pleasant, P. Cos. C, 25th A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 14, 1861, Harrison Co. 

Mo.; ad. Kidgeway, Mo. 

389 Case. Georce, P. Co. C, 25th; e. June 28, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

390 CASE, THEODORE, Lieut. Co. C, Van Horn's Battalion; e. June 28, 1861; 

promoted Capt. and A. Q. M. Vols. June 9, 1862; appointed Q. M. Gen. of 
Missouri, Jan. 13, 1865. 

391 Casev, George W., P. Co H, 25th; e. July 30, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

392 Casey, Hugh, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Julv 30, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

393 Casev, vvm., P. Co. H, 25th; e Sept. 30, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

394 Casev Ivy, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Feb. 11, 1862. St. Joseph, Mo. 

395 Cassidy Hugh, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 5, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
896 Cassidv. Wm., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

397 Gates, Wm., P. Co. F, 25th; ^. March 7, 1862, Biickliu, Mo. 

398 Catois. Clement, P. Cos. F and B , Eng; e. Sept. 28, 1802, Gilberisville, Iowa; 

pensioner; ad. Lyporte City, Ke1>. 

399 Cavauaugh, John, P. Cos. C and B, Eng; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111; 

pensioner: ad. Macomb, 111. 

400 Ceenhead, John W., Cor. Co. E. Eni;-. 

401 Chamberlain, Ira, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 29, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

402 Chamberlain, J. J. C, P. Cos. li, 25th, M Eng.; e. Oct. 27, 1861, Stewarts- 

ville, jNIo. 

403 Chamberlain, Philip, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1S61, Prairie City, 111. 

404 Chamberlain, Thomas, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aueust 15, 1861: Adrian, Mich. 

405 Chaplin, Henrv, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Dec. 20, 1861; Morth Salem, Mo. 

406 Chapman, Arthur. P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 15, 1861: Camden, 111.; 

dead. 

407 Chapman, Geo. C, Sergt. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861; Paris, 111.; a 

pensioner; ad. Strafford, Mo. 

408 Chapman, John H., P., Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861; Paris, 111.; a 

pensioner; ad. Paris, 111. 

409 Chapman, Leonard, P. Cos. I and C; Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861; Rushville, 111.; 

draws a pentiion: ad. Pittsburg, 111. 

410 Chapman,RobertP.,P. Cos. Hand D, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861; Paris, 111.; ad. 

Oranee, 111. 

411 Chapman. William, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27. 1801; Kan.sas City, Mo. 

412 Chapman, AVm., P. Co, I, 25th; e. Jan. 27, 1862. 

413 Chapman, Wm. B., P. Co. I. 25th: e. Aug. 25, 1861; Pleasanton, Kas. 

414 Chase, Alfred. P. Co. D, 25th: e. Aug. 6,l862; St Joseph, Mo. 

415 Chastian. Joseph F., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Nov. 24, 1801; Nod- 

away Co., ]\[o.; has pension; ad. Decatur, Neb. 
410 Chenowith, John M., P Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 5, 1803; De- 
Kalb Co., Mo.; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

417 Chenowith, "Wm. M., P. ('o. A, 25th: e. July 28, 1861; St. .Joseph, Mo. 

418 Cherubim, Rudolph, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

419 Chipraan, Geo., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 10," 1862, D.maphan. Kas. 

420 Christ, John, P. Co. B, 25th: e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

421 Christian, John, P. Co. A, 25th: e. Julv 9. 1861, Piatt Co., Mo. 

422 Chronic, Wm. W., musician, Co. B. "Eng.; e, July 28, 1861, Pari-, 111.; ad. 

Scottsville. Kas. 

423 Churchill, Henrv, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. .Toseph. Mo. 

424 Clabaugh, David, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 17, 1861, Mt. Sterling, 111.; died 

Jan. 2, 1802. Otterville, Mo. 

425 Claproth, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1801; Cape Girardeau, 

pensioned; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



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426 Clark, Aaron M., Sergt. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carlyle, 111.; wounded 

iu abdomen and discb. Aug. 2, 1862; dead. 

437 Clark, David, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Wapello, Iowa. 

428 Clark, John, P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. Paris, 111. 

429 Clark, John C, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

430 Clark John W., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 26, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

431 Clark, Levi, P. Cos. G, 25tli, L and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 23, 1861, Omaha, Neb. 

432 Clark, Morrell, Mus. Cos. I and C. Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

433 Clark, M. J. L., P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. 

Paris, 111. 

434 Clark, Theodore, P. Co. D, Eng ; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carlyle, 111.; disch. Oct. 

25, 1862, for defective vision. 

435 Clark, Ward A., P. Co D, Eng.; e. Sept. 10, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. dis. 

Otterville, Mo., Feb. 6, 1862": 

436 Clark, William, P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Wapello, Iowa; is pensioned; 

ad. Wapello, Iowa. 

437 Clarke, W. L., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian. Mich. 

438 Clary, John, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

439 CLAXTON, WM., Lieut. Cos. I, 25th, and A, Eng. ; e. Nov. 1, 1861, Hannibal, 

Mo. 

440 Claybourne, James, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 23, 1861, Holt Co., 

Mo.; ad. Sidney, Iowa. 

441 Claywell, James, Cor. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Jan. 13, 1862. 

442 Cleary, John, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng. ; e. Feb. 13, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

443 Cleetonet, N. B., P. Cos. F, 25lh, H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1862, Pleasant 

View, Mo. 

444 Cleinion, Thos. C, Mus. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 26, 1861. 

445 Clemens, Anthony, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Feb. 27, 1862, Sidney, Iowa. 

446 Clemens, Nicholas, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Sidney, Iowa. 

447 Clemens, Clinton, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 16, 1862, Sidney, Iowa. 

448 Clemens, Samuel M., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Oct. 6, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

449 Clevenger, Shubal V., P. Co. G, 25th; e. May 6, 1863, St. Louis, Mo. 

450 Clevenger, Samuel, P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.;e. March 17, 1863, Hamil- 

ton, Mo. 

451 Cline, Charles, Sergt. Co. B, Eng.; e. Jan. 20, 1864; promoted Lieut. June 12, 

1865. 

452 Clinton, Edward, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

453 Clinton, Geo. W., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

454 Clinton, M. U., P. Co. B, Eng., e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

455 Close, Arthur, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Nov. 11, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

456 Clymo. Chas., Sergt. Co. C, 2r)th, e. July 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

457 Coad, James B., P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Oct. 3, 1861, New London, Iowa; ad. Las 

Animas, Colo. 

458 Coder, Harrison, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 13, 1861, Atchison, Kas. 

459 Coder, Robert, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Mar. 27,1862, Rockport, Mo. 

460 Cochran, Cyrus T., P. Cos. D and F, Eng. ; e. Sept. 4, 1861, Flora, 111. ; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Xenia, 111. 

461 Cocklin, David, Sergt. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 26. 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

462 Coffman, Herbert, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Dec. 16, 1861, North 

Salem, Mo. 

463 Coffman, Pleasant, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, North 

Salem, Mo.; ad. North Salem, IVIo. 

464 Coffey. John, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng. ; e. Jan. 6, 1862, Kansas City, Mo. 

465 Cole, 'Tobias, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

466 Cole, Virgil, P. Co. K, 25th; e. Feb. 20, 1862. 

467 Cole, Cornel, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 25, 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 

468 Cole, Eli. P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 12, 1861, McGregor, Iowa; ad. San 

Antonio, Tex. 

469 Cole, Joseph, P. Co C. Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; disch. dis. 

Jan. 13, 1862, St. Louis, Mo. 

470 Coleman. Anthonv P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Feb. 27, 1863. 

471 COLEMAN, BENJ. F., Capt. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 5, 1861, 

Forest City, Mo. ; dead. 



194 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEP:RS. 

472 Coleinan, John, P. Co. G, 2511j; e. June 17, 1861, Kansas City, Mo.; ad. Sol- 

diers' Home, Leavenworth, Kas. 

473 Collary, Patrick, Cor. Cos. E, 25th, Gaud C, Eng; e. Jan. 4, 1862, Oregon, Mo. 

474 Collamer, Philip, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

475 Collins, B , P. Co. H, Eng.; not accounted for. 

476 Collins, Daniel, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 8, 1861, McGregor, Iowa. 

477 Combs, Geo. W., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

478 Couant, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

479 Cone, Augustus S., Cor. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 3 861, New London, 

Iowa; pensioner; ad. Yarmouth, Iowa. 

480 Cone, Sam. P., P. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, New London, Iowa; 

ad. New London, Iowa. 

481 Conklin, Joseph D., P. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1861, New London, 

Iowa. 

482 Conklin, Chas. R. C. P., Sergt. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Forest City, 

Mo.; ad. Skidmore, Mo. 

483 Conklin, Joseph S., Sergt. Cos. A and K, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; a pensioner; ad. Stockton, Kas. 

484 Conley, Samuel, P. Cos. II, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. May 25, 1863, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; 8d. Barnaul, Mo. 

485 CONNETT, >VM. H., Lieut. Cos. E, K and G, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, 

Mich.; res. June 2, 1862. 

486 Connor, Hugh, P. Co. G, 25lh; e. June 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

487 Connor, John, P. Co. K, 25th; e. June 18, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

488 Connor, Josiah, P. Co. H, 25th; e. June 25, 1863, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

489 Conrad. Peter R., Sergt. Cos. G and I, Eng.;e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. ;ad. Doiles Mills, Mo. 

490 Conroy, Richard, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

491 Conroy, Peter, P. Cos. I, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861, McGregor, Iowa; 

deserted April. 1863, at Memphis, Tenn. 

492 Cooke, Andrew J., P. Co. E, 25th; e. March 21, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

493 Cook, Homer C. P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, McGregor, Iowa; 

died, Detroit, Minn., in 1887. 

494 Cook, Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

495 Cooley, Hiram, P. Cos. D. G and C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

496 Cooper, Charles. P. Co. H, 25th; no record further. 

497 Cooper, David, P. Cos. C and B. Ene.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

498 Cooper, Geo., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

499 Cooper, Jas., P. Co. G. Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

500 Cooter, Geo. W., P. Cos. E, 25th, Gand C, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1862, Leaven- 

wortli, Kas.; ad. Medora, Kas. 

501 Copp, Cha.s. S., P. Cos. I and C,Eng.;e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa;dead. 

502 Copp, Henry H., P. Cos. I and C. Eng. ; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; ad. 

BrtiWStGr N^gI) 

503 Corbet, Eugene, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 15. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

504 Cornell, Caleb, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. March 27, 1863. 

505 Cornell, Germain, P. Co, E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

506 Cornell. Harvev. P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; dead. 

507 CORNELL, JAMES, Lieut. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 13, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo.; 

disch. Dec. 7, 1863. 

508 Cornell, Thos., mus. Co. G, 25tb; e. Mar. 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

509 Cornwell, Wm. M., Cor. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e, Sept. 9, 1861, Burlington, 

Iowa; dead. 

510 Cornwell, Wm., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 17. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

511 Couchan, Wm., P. Co. K, 25th; e. June 12, 1862. 

512 Court, Geo., P. Cos. K, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Hawleyville, 

Iowa; dead. 

513 Cowan. Pat., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27. 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

514 Cowick, Saml., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 28, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

515 Cox, Fred H., P. Cos. II and D. Eng.; e. Nov. 21, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

516 Cox. Isam, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.;e. Dec. 21, 1861, Holt Co., Mo.; ad. 

Shenandoah, Iowa. 

517 Cox, Jas. W., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 195 

518 Cox, John, P. Co. E, 25tb;e. Dec. 21, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

519 Cox, Julius, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 3, 1861, New London, Iowa; ad. Merri- 

mack, Iowa. 

520 Cox, Robert T., P. Cos. Hand D, Eng.; 6. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111.; died 

Waverly, Tenn., March 4, 1864. 

521 Cox, Wm. H. H., P. Cos. D. 25rii, A and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 29, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. Shenandoah, Iowa. 

522 COY, L. W., Lieut. Cos. F, C and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 7, 1861; St. Louis, Mo.; 

disch. Oct. 29, 1865; was from New Hampshire; is a prosperous banker, and 
an officer in a Land and Lumber Co. ; ad. Little Rock, Ark. 

523 Craig. Alfred, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1861; Cassville, Wis.; was wounded 

near Johnsonville, Tenn., while taking dispatches to the 16th Wis. ; gunshot 
wound of head, shoulder and leg; has a pension; ad. Webster City, Iowa. 

524 Craig, Edwin, Sergt. Cos. E, 26lh, Gaud C, Eng. ; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

525 Craig, John, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. Julv 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

526 Craig, John W., P. Co. I, 25ih; e. Feb. I2,"l862. 

527 Craighead, Samuel F., P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. April 15, 1863, 

Harlan, Mo. 

528 Craighead, John W., Cor. Co. G, 25th; e. July 28, 1861, Harlan, Mo. 

529 Cottman, Wm. F., Sergt. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

530 Crandall, Orrin, Cor. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 19, 1861, St. Louis, Mo 

531 Crawford, Allen, P. Co. C, 25lh; e. July 28, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

532 Crawford, John, P. Co. A, 25th, e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

533 Connor, Hugh, 2d, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Kansas 

Citv, Mo. 

534 Crawford, Joseph, Sergt. Co. E, 25tb; e. Holt Co., Mo. 

535 Crawford, Sam'l, P. Co. A. 25th; e. June 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

536 Ciiger, Aifrtd, P. Co. I, 25th; e. unknown. 

537 Chilton, Sam'l, P. Co. I. 25tl'; e. July 25. 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

53.S Crites, Harrison S., P. Cos. H, 2oth, and M, Eng.; e. Dec. 21, 1861, St. Joseph, 
Mo.; ad. Durango. Colo. 

539 Croll, Jeremiah B , P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Wapello. Iowa ; draws 

pension ; ad. Wapello, Iowa. 

540 Crook, Edwin, Cor. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6. 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

541 Cross. Wm., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, East St. Louis, Mo.; 

ad. 3^4 Main st., Memphi.*, Tenn 

542 Cross, John, P. Co. D. 25th; e. July 18, 1861, St Joseph, Mo. 

543 Crotts, Francis, P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

544 Crouse, Albert, P. Cos. D, F and B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 17, 1861; a pensioner; ad. 

Carlyle, 111. 

545 Crouse, Wm., Cor. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861; ad. Carlyle, 111. 

546 Croy, James, P. Co. H, 25th: e. July 28, 1863, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

547 Croy, Richard, Cor. Co. D, 25th; no further record. 

548 Cudney, Reuben, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 

has pension; ad. Colfax. Wash. Ter. 

549 Culner, Joel, P. Co. I, 25ih; e. Sept. 21, 1861. Gallatin, Mo. 

550 Gulp, Melvin. P. Co. I',. 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

551 CUNNINGHAM, JOHN S., Lieut. Cos H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1861, 

Oskaloosa, Iowa; is a book-keeper; ad. New Brighton, Pa. 
553 Cunningham, Jas.,P. Cos. A and E, Ena:. ; f- Julv 20, 1861, East St. Louis, Mo. 

553 Currie, Jas., K., P Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis. Mo.; killed by 

Capt. Randolph at Vicksbuig, 1863. 

554 Curran, John, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, East St. Louis, Mo.; 

ad. Wellsville, Ohio. 

555 Curtis, Geo. H., P. Co. I. 25th; e. Aug 20, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

556 Curtis, John, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22. 1861. 

557 Curtis, Spencer, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Nov. 23, 1861, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

558 Cutter, Wm. L., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e, Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; ad. 

Middle River, Iowa. 

559 Cutter, Wm. IT., P. Co. A. 2oth; e. July 25, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

560 Coats, F. M., P. Cos. I and C. Eng., e. ; ad. White Heath, 111. 

561 Copeland, Wm., P. Co. — , 25th; ad. Valisoa, Iowa. 

562 Daege, Joseph, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 



196 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

563 Dalin, James, P. Co. B, 25tli; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

564 Daia, Allen T., P. Co. I, 25th; e. March 3, 1«62, Gallatin, Mo. 

565 Dally, Daniel, P. Cos. A and E, 'Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

566 Daily, John W., P. Co. D, 25ih; e. July l(),'l861, St. Jostpli, Mo. 

567 Dakiu, Chas. H., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.'; e. Sept. 13, 1861, McGregor, Iowa. 

568 Dalby, Henry, Cor. Cos. C, 25th, A and'B, Eng.; e. Dec. 31, 1861, Stewarts- 

ville. Mo.; is pensioned; ad. Clarksdale, Mo. 

569 Dalby, Piiilip, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 1, 1861. Stewartsville, Mo. 

570 Dalby, Smith, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 6, 1861, Stewarts- 

ville, Mo. 

571 Daiton, James, P. Co. K. 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

572 Di,mm, Casper, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

on pension roll; ad. Cape Girardeau. Mo. 
578 Daniels, Moses, P. Cos., I, 25lh, H ' nd D, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

574 Daniels, Azariah, P. Co. I, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; dead. 

575 Daniels, Robert, P. Cos. II, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1862, Gallatin, 

Mo. ; vet. 

576 Daniels, Wm. S., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; vet. 

577 DARBY, TIM, Lieut. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 11, 1861, Clinton Co., Mo.; disch 

Jan. 1. 1864. 

578 Daughinbaugh. Eli, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

579 Daugainbaugh, John, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July, 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

580 Daugherty, Coustbnline, !?ergt. Cos. K and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Bur- 

lington, Iowa; is a hardware merchant and in good circumstances; a pen- 
sioner; ad. Ottumwa, Iowa. 

581 UAUGHERTY, FRANK, Lieut. Co. A, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

dismissed April 5, 1863. 

582 Daugherty, John W., Sergt. Co. F, Eng., e. Sept. 23, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

583 Davtdson, Chas. B., Sergt. Co. K, 25ih; e. July 15, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

584 Davidson, C. H., P. Co. H, 25th; e. , Nodaway county. Mo. 

585 Davidson, Freci VV., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

586 Davy, Atwood,P. Cos. B and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4,1861, Prairie City, 111. 

587 Davie, Sylvester. Sergt. Cos. C and L5, Eiig.; e Aug. 12, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

588 Davis, Andrew P., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Oct. 4, 1864. 

589 Davis, Geo. M., P. Cos. B, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. Savannah, Mo. 

590 Davi>, Jonathan, Sergt. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 10, 1861. Burlington, Iowa. 

591 Davis, Josiah P., P. Cos. F and B, Eng ; e. Sept. 5, 1861. Monticello, Iowa. 

592 Davis, Nathaniel L., P. Co. K, 25th; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Ilawleyville, Iowa; ad. 

Havvleyville, Iowa. 

593 Davis, Pleasant. P. Cos. C, 25ih. A and B, Eng. ; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Worth Co., Mo. 

594 Davis. Robert P., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. Terre 

Haute, Ind. 

595 Davis, Russell, P. Cos. E, 25th, Gand C, Eng. ; e. Dec. 24, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

596 Davis, Stephen, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. March 1, 1862, Stewarts- 

ville, Mo. 

597 Diivis, Wm. L., P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Worth Co., 

Mo.; ad. Frankfort, Mo. 

598 D.ivls, William. P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1831, Paris, 111. ; ad. 

Terre Haute, Ind. 

599 Dawson, Chas., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Paris, 111. 

600 Day, John, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Gnindy Co., Mo. 

601 Deal, Stephen F., P. Co. F. 25th; e. Nov. 26, 1861. Island City, Mo. 

602 Dean, Lvcursrus L., P. Co. A. 25th; e. Dec. 17, 1861, Fremont. Iowa. 

603 DEAN, THADUEUS J., Capt. Co. I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, West Point,. 

Iowa; res. April 12, 1862; ad. Joseph, Union Co.. Ore. 

604 Deavers, Elish;.. P. Cos. H and U. Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Paris, 111. 

605 De Bell, R., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 19, 1861, Atchison, Kas. 

606 Decker, Chas.. P. Co. H, 25tli; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

607 Decoml). Lewie, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Jan. 4, 1864. 

608 Deem, Robert B., P. Cos. B, K and A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; has 

pension; ad. Washburn. Kas. 
309 Dp Hass, Andrew J., P. Cos. C and B, Eng. ; e. Sept. 24, 1863, Pocahontas, 
Tenn. 



THE kostp;r. ]97 

610 Detrick, Jacob, p. Co F, 2oth; e. Dec. 31, 1861, North Salem, Mo. 

6 1 Deaker, James, P. Co II, 25th; e. Aug. 11, 1861. No.laway Co , Mo. 

6 2 Deambre Henry, . Cos. A andE, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis Mo 

613 De aucy, John. P C'o. A 25th; e. June 19, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. ' 

t\\ n^ m'm "^'^"•''•n^- u'^V?' "^'^'' "• J""*^ 1^' 1««1- «t- Joseph, Mo 
615 De Malloy Fredk P Co. A, 25th: e. July 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo 

6 ? npn if' ^T.'''!?-'u •n^°-r?'o^"^ • ^- S^P^- 1^' 1«61 Cape Gi?a;deau, Mo. 
617 Denallen, Fred., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 1, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 
6 8 Dempsey, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861 

Ca^^Mo"?'"^'"' ^" ^*''- ^^' ^^'^' ^^ '"^ ^' ^"^- "• ^^^ 12, 1861, Nodaway 
620 Dennis, Sanford P Co H 25th; e. Sept. 25, 1862, Iron Co., Mo. 

F,'h ',«ro™n.r ^-n *^ \?"'-'f t^'P^- ^^^' ^^^^' Bloomington, III.; dlsch. dis. 

l^eb., 1802, OttervilJe, Mo.; ad. Holden 111 o . . 

622 Deselms, Elhvood, P. Cos. D, F and B, Eng.; e. Aug 15 1861 Flora 111 

drawsapensi(>n;ad. Aid, Wayne Co., lil 'S- u, looi, riora, ui., 

^?? T)eselms, John, P. Cos. D. F and B, Eng.; e. Sept 14 1861 Flora 111 dead 
6^5 De?H.r' A 'h- ^•' ?■ ^'" ^' f ^'^= ^- J^"- 1<^' 1««^- North Salem, "io" '^'''• 
''' ""^eitn^ad': H^rtS-Jli.^"^'-^ ^- ''''■ ''' ^«^^^ ^loomington. 111.; has a 

^^^ ^low'a'''^' ^^^'''^'^*''' ^^''^^' ^"^' ^^ ^""^ ^' ^°^-' ''• ^^P^- ~^' l'''^^; Wapello, 

''' ^lE;'::;l:'4S:; fas'^'^' ^ -^-^^ ^- ^^^-^ ^ ^^^- ^•^' ^«^^' Hawleyvine! 
628 Dewein, John G., P. Cos. K and A. Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1861; Burlington Iowa 

S n-l'- '' '^^\"-n^- ^''^ ^^i.^''^-' '■ S^Pt- 21, 1861 Burlington, lo^a^ ' ^• 
630 Dickinson Albert P., P. Cos. C and B, Eng ; e. Aug 4 1861- Paris 111 • 
died Feb. 15, 1864. at Louisville, Ky. * ' ' ' 

681 Dickinson Dayton P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e; Aug. 12, 1861; Paris, 111. 

632 Dickson, Wm., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 26. 1861; Hardin, Iowa; ad 

oalem, Ure. 

633 Dickey Joseph, P. Co. F Eng.; e. Aug. 28, 1861; Dubuque, Iowa; is pen- 

sioned; disch. August. 1862; ad. Alton 111 h , , pcu 

S- J?.\'^"*' ^^'T- ^\^''- ^'' 2'^^'»; e. June 13, 1861; St. Joseph, Mo. 

fiqfi n 1^'""^ Ar""''^'"^??'.?- ^> ^- 25^''' ^- ^'^^- 1- 1861; St. Joseph, Mo. 

S S- i''''''^'T.^\^''o'J?- S."- ^- ^•'^^l'' e- Nov. 1, 1861; St. Joseph, Mo. 

«S n- ''"' ^f u^-^"; ^' ^""S ' ^- ^^"^- 15, 1861; Adrian. Mich. 

638 Dillman. .John, P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Oct 3 1861- Flora Til 

639 DILL, HAMILTON, CAPT. Co. H 25th Maj': EnJ • e' Au.. 14 1861 
^.o T.M^7f'"^'^^'*-*''''^l'-^^f ^1-^864; dead. ^ =• i*, i^soi, 
fil? S- ' "^"t"? ^w/- ^:''- 1^ ^"^^ ^^- ^''^>^- July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

Tl^' ;h«T T- ^i','%i«?T^,^°'^ ^' ^"S- = ^- ^^^- 4. 1861, Prairie City, 
.._ ^.I'l-: flisf-li- Aug. 22, 1862, Jackson, Tenn. -^ 

642 Dilly, Thos. A. Sergt. Cos C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

aa. Sterline, Kas. -^ 

643 TnUy Wm O., P. Cos. H and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie Ciiy, Hi. 

644 Dipple. Peter, P. Co. D. Eng. ; e. Aug. 17, f861, Carlyle. 111. ; disch. dis. St 

1862'''' ^'''^^° prisoner at Holly Springs, Miss., Dec. 20, 

?f^ '^'sclibein, Geo.. P. Cos. L, I and D, Ensr. 

646 D.tch Daniel, P C\xD, Eng.; e. Oct. 3,^1861, Flora, III.; deserted March 12, 

io()3, at Memphis, Tenn 

647 DiWe, Wm., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 15, 1862. St. Joseph. 

648 Divinia Saml., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861. Ca'dwell, Mo 

6o0 DKvon, W.lson. P. Co E, 25th; e. Sept. 20. 1862. Independence, Mo. 

til nn n'V''''"' £• P^ ?-S^l^'''- ^"- !«• 1861' Kansas Cirv. Mo 
rS S ' ?''"7;t^-^";.^' 25'J': e- Aug. 12. 1861. Palmvra. Mo. 
OOo Doll, Sam). H.. P. Co. A. 25th; e. July 23, 1861. St." .Joseph Mo 

vilk"'Kat"' ^' ^''" ^' "^''' ' ''■ ^''^- ^^' ^^^^' l^'««™''iigt«°. Ill-; ^il- Marys- 
656 S^^nti'""' f ,™- aY-o •.?"• S- ^^^^' '■ J^ily 29. 1862. St. Joseph. Mo. 

ester Mo deac? '" ' '' " """'^ "' ^"=-' ^- ^^^- 1^' l^^^l' ^''^^- 



198 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEEKS. 

657 Donavan, Pat., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. May 1, 1863, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

658 Dony, Saml. C, P. Cos. E, 25th, C and G, Eng. ; e. July 22, 1861, White Cloud, 

Kas.: ad. White Cloud, Kas. 

659 Donnell, Elwood O.. P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1861, Keokuk, Iowa; disch. 

dis. July 26, 1863, Vicksburir, Miss. 

660 DONNELL, PAT., Lieut. Co. E, 25th; e. Sept. 27, 1863; commission revoked 

Oct. 24, 1862. 

661 DONNELLY, GEO. K.,Capt. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, Kidder, Mo.; resigned 

July 1, 1862. 

662 Dobbins, Leonard, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Palmyra, Mo. 

663 Dobbins, Thomas, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

664 Dorkins, Andrew J., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

665 Dodd, John H., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 24, 1861, Bloomington, 111.; dead, 

killed bv accidental discharge of his gun at Holly Springs, Miss., Dec. 2 
1862. 

666 Doneke, August, P. Co. G. 25th; e., Dec. 27, 1861, Wyandotte, Kas. 

667 Dort, John E., P. Co. K, Eag. ; e. Sept. 21, 1861. Burlington, Iowa. 

668 Doslin, Edw., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

669 Dover, Cyrus W., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, New London, Iowa; ad. 

Dexter, Kas. 

670 Downs, Chas. H., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Feb. 21, 1862, Stewartsville, Mo. 

671 Downs, Thomas, P. Co. I, Eng.; e. Oct. 24, 1861, Monmouth, III.; dead. 

672 Doyle, John, P. Cos. F, 25th, C and I), Eng.; e. Dec. 5, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

673 Doyle, James, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Feb 2, 1862. 

674 Drus, Wm., P. Cos., B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

675 Duck, John R., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1864. 

676 Deuel, Frank M., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

ad. Keokuk, Iowa. 

677 Duey, James, P. Co. E, 25th, G, Eng.; e. 

678 Duffin, Geo., P. Co. H, 25th; e. 

6;9 Dugan, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

680 Duke, Mflhlon, P. Cos. D and F. Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, 111.; ad. 

Rinard, 111.; disch. dis. July 26, 1863. 

681 Dunbar, Nathan R., Sergt. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; 

draws a pension; ad. Paris, 111. 

682 Dunbar, J., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris. 111.; ad. same. 

683 Duncan, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, Caldwell Co., Mo. 

684 Duman, Jo.sephus, P. Co. F, Eng.;e. Oct. 3, 1861. Cassville, Wis.; disch. 

Feb. 1863, at Memphis, Tenn., forinjury to arms and rightside, received in a 
railroad accident at Jackson, Tenn., Oct. 4, 1862 ; ad. Le Mars, Iowa. 

685 Dunsford, Charles, Hospital Steward, Eng.; e. Feb. 15, 1861; died in Christ- 

man, 111., 1878. 

686 Dunlap, Albert, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. Kent, 

Iowa 

687 DUNLAP, THOS. A., Lieut. Co. D, 25th: e. July 26, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; 

dead, killed in battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862. 

688 DUNN, JAMES, Capt. Cos. C. 25th and A, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. City Hall, St. Louis, Mo. 

689 Dunn, Tim, P. C.>. A. 25th; e. June 16. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

690 Dunn, Wm., P. Co. I, 2oth, H and D, Eng. ; e. Dec. 1. 1862, Pocahontas, Ark. 

691 Dunn, Wm. R.,' P Co. G, 25th: e. Feb 1, 1862. Omaha, Neb. 

692 Dunning, Chas. W., P. Co. I, 25th; e. .Ian. 2, 1862. 

693 Durant, Washington, P. Co. C, 2.5th; e. July 1, 1861. 

694 Durr, Pat., P. C(. II, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

695 Duval, Chas, Sergt. Co. C, 25th; e. Julv 5, 1861. 

696 Duyer, Nicholas. P. Cos. \ and E, Enl'.; e. Julv 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

697 Duyer. Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e June 15, 1861, Kan.'^as City, Mo. 

698 Drinker, Chas., Cor. Co. (^ 25th: e. June 20, 1861, St. Jo.seph, i\lo. 

699 Devers, Wm., P. Cos. B. Kand A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; draws a 

pension; ad. Bement, 111. 

700 Dolin. Pat., P. Co A, Entr.; e. Julv 20. 1861; ad Topeka, Kas. 

701 Doney, James, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July22, 1861, White Cloud, Kas. 



THE KOSTER. 199 

702 Dotson, Wm., Corp. Cos. B and F, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; is a pen 

sioner; ad. Columbia, 111. 

703 Eagan, Israel, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

704 Eagan, John, P. Co. G, 25tli: e. Jan. 7, 1862, Omaha, Neb. 

705 Eakley, Max, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. June 28, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

706 Eastman, Albert, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Rushville, 111.; died, Jack- 

son, Tenn., Sept. 25, 1862, of consumption. 

707 Eaton, John, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.;e. April 11, 1863, Independence, 

Mo. 

708 Eaton, Newton, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 1, 1862, Independence, 

Mo, 

709 Ebenbarger, Fredk., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

is a pensioner; ad. Louisiana, Mo. 

710 Eberle Henry, e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

711 Ebersoll, Silas, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Sept. 17, 1861, Pleasant View, Mo. 

712 Ecord, Harrison, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 21, 1862, Davis Co., 

Mo. 

713 Echtle, Francis H., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

714 Edinger, John H., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Greenville, 111. 

715 EDINCiER, M. D., Lieut. Cos. E, D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861. 

716 Edon, John, P. Cos. L and I, Eng; e. 



717 Edwards, John, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 21, 1861; 

718 Eggeman, Henry, P. Cos. G, I and D,"Eng. ; e Nov, 9, 1862; Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; a pensioner; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

719 Eggeman, John, P. Cos. I and G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861; Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. ; ad. same. 

720 EGGLESTON, JOHN Q., Assist. Surg. 25th; e. Sept. 20, 1862; disch. Jan. 1, 

1864 ; is a medical attendant at the Insane Asylum, Olathe, Kas. 

721 Filings worth, Jas. R., P. Cos. F, 25th, HandD, Eng.; e. Feb. 20, 1862; Stew- 

artsvillt'. Mo. 

722 Elliott, Jes^e, P. Co. A, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. Dec. 5, 1862; ad. Barnard, Mo. 

723 Elliott, John, P. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. Sept, 15, 1861; Annapolis, 111. ; draws 

a pension: ad. Annapolis, 111. 

724 Elliott, John, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 3, 1861; Nodaway Co., Mo. 

725 Ellis, Jasper, P. Co. F. 25th; e. Feb. 16, 1862; Stewartsville, Mo. 

720 Ellwood, Wm., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Ang. 4, 1861; Prairie City, III.; 
vet. Jan. 23, 1864. 

727 Ellsworth, Henry, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E; Eng.; e. July 19, 1861; St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

728 English, Andrew J., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861; St. Joseph. Mo. 

729 English, Henry, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Aug. 25, 1861; Harrisonville, Mo. 

730 Ennis, Peter, P. Cos. A and E, Eng ; e. July 20, 1861; St. Louis, Mo. 

731 Espinosa, Josie, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 19, '1861, Santa Fe, N. M. 

732 Esteps, Rudolph, P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

733 Estel, Martin A., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

734 Estes, Henry, P. Cos. I. 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Feb. 26, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

735 Estes, John'T., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

736 Euler, Mathias, Sergt. Co. B. 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. ; killed in 

battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862; color bearer. 

737 Eulig, John, P. Co. B, 25tli: e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

738 Eustace, James, P. Co. K. 25th; e. Oct. 7, 1861, Kansas Citv, J\lo. 

739 Evans, .James H., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

740 Evans, John B., Cor. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 9, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; ad. 

Evans. Weld Co., Col. 

741 Evans, Joseph. P. Co. C. 25th; e. Nov. 4, 1862, Arkansas, Mo. 

742 Evans, Levi. K., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 12, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

743 EVANS. SIMON S., Capt. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Oregon, Mo.; died 

Jan. 17, 1863. 

744 Everett, Josiah, P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Rushville, 111. ; died ^t Rose- 

ville, HI., in 1887. 

745 Everett, Wm., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Shelbyville, 111. ; 

pensioned; ad. Millersville, 111. 



200 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

746 Eyles, John T., Sergt. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; dead. 

747 Ewing, Andrew J., P. Cos. B, K and A, Eag.; e. July 28, 1861; vet. Jan., 

1864; a pensioner; ad. Hutsonville, 111. 

748 Edwards, Samuel, P. Co. E, 25tli; e. Dec. 21, 1861, Holt Co., ISIo. 

749 Faley, Patrick, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, M(j. 

750 Fallon, Hugh, P. Co. G, 25th; e Feb. 9, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

751 Fanner, Andrew, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 5, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

752 Fanner, Elijah, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 25, 1862, Forrest City, Mo. 

753 Farmer, James H., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Feb. 16, 1862, Fremont, Iowa. 

754 Farnsworth, Horace, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

died in 1887, in Nebraska. 

755 Farris, Charles, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

756 Fassold, John, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

757 Fay, George, P. Cos. I and C, Ene. ; e. Sept. 16, 1861. McGregor, Iowa. 

758 Ferrell, Frank, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; ad. 

Monmouth, 111. 

759 Fesler, John, P. Co, A, Eng.; 

760 Feuerbach, Henry, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

He entered the service from patriotic motives, serving first in a three-months 
Missouri regiment, was taken prisoner, escapt d, and returnfd as t-tattd else 
where in this History. He is a prosperous contractor and builder in good 
circumstances at 2550 Grand ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

761 Fields, Alex., P. Cos. F, 25th; H and D, Ena:.; e. May 1, 1863. Richmond, Mo. 

762 Fields, Francis M., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Sept. 21, 1882, Richmond, Mo. 

763 Fife, David, P. Cos. H., 25th; M and E; e. Dec. 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

764 Fife, David, Wagoner, Co. I, 25th; e. Dec. 10, 1862, Plattsmouth, Neb. 

765 Fike, Isaac, Sergt. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 6, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. Hopkins, 

Mo. 

766 Finch, John, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

767 Findese, Adam, P. Cos. L and I, Eng., e. 

768 Findlay, J. W., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 26, 1862, Rochester, Mo. 

769 Findlay, Henry D., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 4, 1862. Rochester, Mo. 

770 Findlay, Saml. W., P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 28, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo.; ad. 

Browning, Linn Co., Mo. 

771 Finn, Lewis H., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

772 Fischer, John, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. 

773 Fisher, Daniel F., Sergt. Cos. I and C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

ad. Fairfield, Neb. 

774 Fisher, Geo., Cor. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. the same. 

775 Fisher, John, P. Cos. H,D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 28, 1862, Sandford, Ind. 

776 Fitzgerald, Edward, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 19. 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

777 Fitzgerald, John, P. Co. D, Eng.;e. Sept. 2, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. dis. 

Aug. 22, 1862, St. Louis, Mo. 

778 Fitzgerald, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

779 Fitzgerald, Wm., P. Cos. AandE, Eng ; e. .July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

780 Fitzhugh, Thomas, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Jan. 12, 1862. White 

Cloud, Kas. ; ad. Kansas City. Mo. 

781 Flaherty, John, P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861, Elkport, Iowa; vet. 

Dec. 30. 186:^. 

782 FLAP, HENRY, Capt. Co. B, Maj. Lt.Col. and Col. Eng.; e. July 26, 1861, 

St. Louis, Mo. He was a civil engineer previous to the war ; was employed 
by the Government as topographical engineer before he was appointed Captain 
of Co. B. Since the War Vie has been mostly engaged as Engineer of Public 
Works at St. Louis ; was Chief Engineerand Director in building the great 
St. Loni« steel bridge across the Mississippi River ; is now Superintendent of 
Public Works for St. Louis ; is in good circumstances ; ad. City Hall, St. 
Louis, Mo.' 

783 Flanagan, Wm., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept, 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; vet. 

Jan. 7, 1864. 

784 Ffatt. John, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Feb. 18, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

785 Fletcher, Thos., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Forest City, Mo. 

786 Flint, Nathaniel B., P. Co. A, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 



THE KOSTER. 201 

787 Flint, Thos. H., P. Cos. B and C, Eng.; e. July 38, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. 

Paris, 111. 

788 Flynn. Peter, P. Cos. G, 25th, and L, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo.; 

ad. 824 Cherry St., Scrautou, Pa. 

789 Foley, Peter, P. Co. G. 25th; e. July 8, 1861, Weston, Mo. 

790 FOLSOM, 1)E WITT C, Capt. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111.; res. Jan. 4, 1862. 

791 Folsom, Isaac Y., Sergt. Cos. C and D; e. Aug. 8, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

courtraartialed and dishonorably disch. July, 1862. 

792 Fool, James, P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

793 Forbes, Daniel, P. Cos. A and I, Eng.; e, July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

794 Forbes, Milt., P. Co. F, 25ih; e. Oct. 23, 1862, North Salem, Mo. 

795 Foreacre, Andrew J., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Sardford, 

Ind.; has a pension; ad. Sandford, Ind. 

796 Forshea, John T., P. Cos. C and B. Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Avon, 111.; pen- 

sioner; ad. Pekin, 111. 

797 Foster, Fenner, Cor. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Toolsboro, Iowa; 

ad Cape Horn, Washington Ter. 

798 Foster, Fred., P. Cos. L and I. Eng.; e. 

799 Foster, John T., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Oct. 27, 1861, Nodawav Co., Mo. 

800 Foster, James, P. Co. ; ad. Sutton, Neb. 

800 Fowler, Linden, Cor. Cos. A and E, Eng; e. July 20, 1861, Pavson, 111. 

802 Fox, Martin H., P. Cos. H. 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1862, Nodaway 

Co., Mo. 

803 Fox, David, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Oct. 25, 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

804 Fox, Fountain, P. Cos. B, K and A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; is a 

farmer in good circumstances; ad. Farmer&burg, lud. 

805 Fox, Jared P., Co. H, 25th; e. Oct. 2, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo.; ad. Hamil- 

ton, Mo. 

806 Fox, Michael, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Nov. 30, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

807 Fox, Sam'l, P. Co. F, 25th; e. June 2, 1862, Bucklin. Mo. 

808 Fagin, Milton, P. Cos. B and C, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

809 Frairy, Pat., P. Co. D, Eng. , e. Aug. 16, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. ; died Nov.24,1862, 

in Hospital No. 3, Jackson, Tenn. 

810 Franlv, Pat., P. Co. H, 25th; e. , Nodaway Co., Mo. 

811 FRAtDE, MAX, Lt. Co. L, Eng.; e. June 10, 1863, disch. Jan. 1, 1864; 

he had been with the Co. when it was in the 35th Missouri. 

812 Frazier, McDaniel. P. Cos A and E, Eng.; e. Aua:. 5, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

813 Frazier, Henry, P. Co. A. 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Jos«ph, Mo. 

814 Frazier, Milt., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad Ashmore, 111. 

815 Frazier, Wm. M., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; ad. 

329 Ewing av. St. Louis, Mo. 

816 Freeman, Milton, P. Co. C, 25th; e. 

817 Frederick, Ephraim.P. Co. I. Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; dead. 

818 French, Jacob W., P. Co. F, Eng.;e. Sept. 23, 1861. Dubuque, Iowa. 

819 Frich, Christian, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

820 Fry, Henry, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

821 Fry, L. W.. P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

822 Fudge, Henry, P. Co. H, Eng.; ; died 

823 Fudgettv, , P. Co. H, Eng.; e. Aus-. 17, 1862, Vermillion. 111. 

824 Fuller, Francis, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B. Eng. ; e. Jan. 4, 1862, Savannah, Mo. 

825 Fullerton, Calvin, P. Cos. C and B, En<r. ; e. Sept. 6, 1862, Prairie City, III. 

826 Fulton, Wm., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng : e. Aug. 25, 1862, Bloomfield, 111. 

827 Fuqua, Josiah, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; h. Aug. 25, 1862, Sanford, Ind. 

828 Fuqua, Marshal T., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng. : (\ Aug. 12, 1861, Sanford, Ind.; 

draws a pension; ad. Sanford, Ind. 

829 Ferguson, Thos. J., P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 186J. Gallatin, Mo. 

830 Gallagher, Manus, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sepi. 18, 1861, Terre Haute, 

Ind. 

831 Gallatine, Joseph, P. Cos. G and I, Encr., e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

832 Galpin, Joseph, P. Co. I,--25th; e. July 25, 1862, Gallatin, .^lo. ; ad. Soldiers' 

Home, Leavenworth, Kas. 



202 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

833 Galpin, Newton, P. Co. I, 25lh; e. Jan. 25, 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

834 Gamble, Jas., Wagoner Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 23, 1862, Holland, 

Kas. ; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

836 Gauser, Richard, P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861; Cape Girardeau, 

Mo., vet. 

837 Ganz, Wm., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; dead. 

838 Garber, John, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Oct. 4. 1864, Brazil, Ind.; ad. Brazil, Ind. 

839 Gardner, Geo K., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Mar. 17, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo., pen- 

sioner; ad. Nodena, Ark. 

840 Gardner, Louis B., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 11, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; ad. Rock- 

ville. Wis. 

841 Gardner, Robert, P. Cos. A andE; e. July 20, 1861, St. Charles, Mo. 

842 Garns, Gottfried, P. Cos. G and I. Eag. ; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. same. 

843 Garrity, Francis, P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 14, 1861; St. Joseph, Mo. 

844 Gasper, Casper, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

845 (iAST, PAULUS, Lieut. Cos. G and I, EQg.;e. Sept. 13, 1861; St. Louis, Mo.; 

disch. Sept. 29, 1864. He is a prosperous and well-to-do merchant and wine- 
grower; is Superintendent and Manager of the Gast Wine Co., northeast cor- 
ner of Market and Third streets, (225 Market), St Louis, Mo. 

846 Gates, Fred, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 15, 1861; St. Joseph, Mo. 

847 Gates, Norman, P. Cos. C. 25th, A and B.^Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

848 Garrison, Levi B., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Oct. 23, 1862, Macon, Mo. 

849 Gayhart, Peter, Mus. Co. D, 25th; A and B, Eng.; e. April 10, 1863. 

850 Gehagan, Thos. H., P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 16, 1861, Leavenworth, Kas, 

851 Gele, May, P. Co. B., 25th; e. March 19, 1862; — St. Joseph, Mo. 

852 Gentles, Wm., P. Cos. G. 25th, H and E, Eng.; e. March 19, 1862; . 

853 Gentry, Jas. H., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 3, 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

854 George, Henry D., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 10, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

855 George, James D., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Oct. 10, 1862, Patterson, Mo. 

856 Gerschwiler, Anthony, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo. 

857 Gerschwiler, Casper, P. Cos. G and I, Eag.; e. Oct. 10, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo. 

858 Gerding, Geo., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

859 Gibson, James, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, Stewarts- 

ville. Mo. ; ad. Clarinda, Iowa. 

860 Gilbel, Henry, P. Co. I, 25th; . 

861 Gilbert, Geo. L., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, McGregor. Iowa. 

862 Gilbert, Henry R., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. March 22, 1862, Grafton, 111.; 

dead. 

863 Gilbert. John W., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 21, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

deserted. 

864 Gilchrist, Lawrence, P. Co. G, 25th; L and E, Eng.; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Inde- 

pendence, Mo. 
85") Gilchrist, Chas , Sergt. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Independence, Mo. 

866 Gill, Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

867 Gillen, John, Sergt. Cos. G, 25th; A and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 20, 1862, St. Louis, 

Mo. 
858 Gillen, .John, P. Co. C. 2oth; e. June 30, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

869 Gillen. Peter, P. Co. F, 25th; e. June 23, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

870 Gillespie, Chas., P. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15. 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 

871 Gilley, Michael, P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 28, 1861, Gilbertville, Iowa; 

vet.; ad. Waterloo, Iowa. 

872 Gillies, John, P. Cos. A and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau. Mo. 

873 Gillett, Doc, P. Co. E, Ene:.;e. Aug. 15, 1861. Adrian, Mich. 

874 Gillett. Phillip. P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 28, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

875 (ilSEKE, HERMAN, Lt. Cos. B, 25th; L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo ; dead. 

876 Gitten, .John, P. Co. G. 25th; e. June 26, 1861, Kan.sas City, Mo. 

877 Given, J. A., P. Cos. B and K, Eug. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 



THE ROSTER, 203 

878 (iLENN, ADDISON N., Lt. Cos. H, 2r)tb, and M, Eng. ; e. Dec. 11, 1861, Whig 

Valley, Mo. Ilistory — Lieutenant Glenn was born in Gallia County, Ohio, 
September 16, 1839; enlisted as a private; was promoted to fifth Sergeant, 
September 1, 1862; to second Lieutenant, May 4, 1863; to first Lieutenant 
Company M, Engineers, January 1, 1864; was discharged when the Regi- 
ment was consolidated into five companies, October 31, 1864, at Atlanta, 
Ga.; was with the companies in all the duties and engagements up to his 
muster out; ad. Du Bois, Nebraska. 

879 Click, Fred, F. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

880 Goddard, Curtis, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

881 Goerisch, Frank, P. Cos. B, 25th, and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. 1815 St. Joseph av., St. Joseph, Mo. 

882 Goerish, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

883 Goff, George, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 1, 1861. . 

884 Goforlh, Adam, P. Co. H, 25th, and M, Eng.; e. Jan. 6, 1862, Nodaway Co., 

Mo. ; ad. Barnard, Mo. 

885 Goforth, Jas. D., Sergt. Cos. H, 25th, and M, Eng.; e. Dec. 10, 1861, Guilford, 

Mo.; ad. Barnard, Mo. 

886 Goforth, John C, P. Co. H, 25; e. June 6, 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo.; ad. 

Arkoe, Mo. 

887 Gollogly, Pat., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861. Cedar Falls, Iowa. 

888 Golden, John B., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. .Joseph, Mo. 

889 Golden, Wm, H.. P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111,; 

vet. Jan. 4, 1864; a pensioner in very poor health from rheumatism; ad. 
Ravanna, Kas. 

890 Goodbrooks. Isaac, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Jan. 25, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

891 Goodman, Geo., P. Co. K, 25th; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

892 Goodman, Thos. M., Sergt. Cos. K25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1862, Haw- 

leyville, Iowa; was the sole survivor of the Centralia Massacre in Oct. 1864; 
died in Santa liarbara, Cal., in 1887. 
898 GOODRICH, SOLOMON, Lieut. Cos. I, K and D; Eng. e. Sept. 15, 1861, 
McGregor, Iowa; he has been a traveling salesman since the close of the 
war; ad. Urbanna, 111. 

894 Goodwill, De Witt C, P. Cos. G, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Cape 

Girardeau, Mo. 

895 Gordley, John T., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 1862, Omaha, Neb. 

896 Gorman, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 15, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

897 Gordon. Theo., P. Co. H. 25t]i; e. , Nodaway, Co., Mo. 

898 Goss, August. P. Co. B, 25th; e. Jui-e 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

899 Grace, John, P. Co. E, Eng ; e July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

900 Grafenstien, Louis, IIosp. Stewd., 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; died 

•May 19, 1863. 

901 Graham, A. B., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. August 15, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

902 Graham, Chas., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

903 Grammer, Fidelity, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

904 Graves, Eli, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 21, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

905 Graves, Daniel R., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 14,1861, Wapello, Iowa. 

906 Graves, Henry, Sergt. Cos. H, 25th; M and E, Ensj. ; e, July 28, 1862. 

907 Graves, Henrv, P. Co. C, 25th: e, Dec. 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

908 Graves, .las. M., Sergt. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

909 Graves, Joseph, P. Cos. I and C, Ens;.; e. . 

910 Graves, Wm , Cor. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

911 GRAY, JAS. R., Lieut. Co. C, 25th; e. Dee. 1, 1862; promoted Capt. 7th Mo. 

Cav.. April 7, 1863. 
922 Gray, John, P. Cos D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

913 Grebe, Christian, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1861. Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

914 Green, Augustus, P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; 

disch. Feb. 13, 1863, Memphis, Tenn., for injury to back, received between 
Holly Springs, Miss., and Lagransre, Tenn., Dec, 1862. 

915 Green," Pat, P! Co. G, 25th; e. Jan. 20, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 



204 thp: first Missouri engineer. 

916 Greer, Benj. H.. P. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861; Rushville. 111. ; pen- 

sioned; ad. Altamont, Kas. 

917 Greer, Henry, P. Co. H, 25tb; e. March 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

918 Greer, VVm. McF., Mus. Cos. F,25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Dec 30, 1861, 

Palermo, Kas.; ad. 400 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal. 

D19 Gordon, Henry T., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Roseville, III. 

9-30 Grega:, John, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 10, 1861, Shenandoah. Iowa. 

921 Gregg, Wm. A., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Oct. 21, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

922 Gregory, Wm. B., Sergt. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

923 Greslin, Wm., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 21, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

924 Griffin, John, 1st, P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 8, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

925 Griffin, John, 2d. P. Co. G. 25th; e. Aug. 9, 1862. St, Joseph, Mo. 

926 Griffin, Martin M., P. Co C, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

927 Griffin, Thos., P. Cos. H, 25th; M and E,Eng.; e. Sept. 8, 1862, Nordway Co., 

Mo.; ad. Bolckow, Mo. 

928 Griffith, Piatt, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 186L St. Louis, Mo.; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Media, Kas. ; taken prisoner at Tuscumbia, June 1, 1862. 

929 Green, William, P. Co. G, 25th; ad. San Francisco, Cal. 

930 Griffith, Thomas, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 15, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

931 Griffith, Wm, P. Cos. D, 25th; A and B,*Eng.; e.July 18. 1861, St. Joseph,Mo. 

932 Griswold, Henry B., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 23, 1862, Douglas Co , Mo. 

933 Grodewohl, Lewis, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Wanello, Iowa. 

934 Grojan, James. P. Co. E. Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

935 Groom, John E., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 21, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

936 Groom, S. L.. P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 21, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

937 Grous, Joseph, P. Cos. L and I, Eng; e. . 

938 Grover, Sam'l, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1861, Worthington, Iowa; disch. dis. 

1862. Jackson, Tenn. 

939 GROW, ASA K., Lieut, and Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Ayon, 

111., rps. Dec. 30, 1861; re-enlisted July 1, 1862; appointed Sergt. Co. C ; ad. 
1407 Farrar St., St. Louis, Mo. 

940 Grow, Devilla, Cor. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, III.; 

vet. Jan. 18, 1864; ad. Geneseo, N. Y. 

941 GRUFF, -CHAS. W., Adjt., 25th; e. May 10, 1861; died July 4, 1862. 

942 Guthrie, , P. Co. H, 25th; e. . 

943 Guyer, James, P. Cos. E, 2oth, G and C, Eng.; e. Mar. 21, 1862, Oregon, Mo.; 

ad. same. 

944 Gwinup. John, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 11. 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

945 Grant, Ferdinand, P. Cos. G, 25th, and L, Eng ; e. . 

916 Guyer, Lawrence, P. Cos. E, 25th; G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 21, 1861, Holt Co., 
Mo.; ad. Oregon, Mo. 

947 Guy, John, P. Cos. F 25th; H and D, Eng.; e. Dec. 11, 1861, Trov. Kas. 

948 Guyer, Richard, P. Cos. E, 25th; G and C, Eng.: e. March 31, 1863, Holt, Co., 

Mo.; ad. Oregon, Mo. 

949 Griffith, , Capt. Co. D, Ene.; e. Aug. 1861; vacated. 

950 Haag, Daniel. P. Cos. land C. Eng.; e. Sept. 31, 1861, Rushville, 111. 

951 Haende. Fred, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

pensioner; ad. Egypt Mills, Mo. 

952 Haenze, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e.Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.- 

ad. same; pensioned. 

953 Haer, Gottlieb, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St Joseph. Mo. 

954 Hackaby, .loshua, (^or Cos. B and E. Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

955 Hao-an, A. N., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Dec. 10, 1861. Nodaway Co., Mo. 

956 HOGE. GEO. B., Capt Co. F, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; pro- 

moted Col. 113 111.. Oct. 2, 1862. 

957 Hagan, Henry, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 28. 1861. St. .Joseph, Mo. 

958 Hagan. Pat.."P. Co. G, 25; e. : ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

959 Hagadorn, Henry, 1st, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June, 13, 1861, St Joseph, Mo. 

960 Hagadorn, Henry, 2d, P. Co. G, 25th, L and E, Eng ; e. Nov. 1, 1861, Platts- 

mouth. Neb. 

961 Haggerty, Pat.. P. Cos. D and F. Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861. Flora. HI. 

962 Hague. Alfred R., Sergt. (^os. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.;e. Jan. 2, 1862, De Kalb 

Co., Mo.; draws a pension; ad. Helena, Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 205 

963 Hahn, Fred., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

has a pension; ad. Eg3pt Mills, Mo. 

964 Hahn, Frederick, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 6, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

965 Hahn, Geo., P. Co. B, 25lh; e. June 6, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

966 Hahn, Jacob, P. Cos. G, 1 and U, Eng; e. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

967 HAHN, WM. J., Lieut. Co. H, 25ih; e. June 25, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

968 Haight, Horace T., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

969 Hail, Adolphus, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; drowned 

at Ashton, La.* March 6, 1863, fell overboard from steamboat. 

970 Hall, David, P. Cos. C, 25lh, and A, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1862, St Joseph, Mo.; 

ad. Frazer, Mo. 

971 Hall, Harvey C, Sergt. Co. K, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Page Co., Iowa. 

972 Hall, James, P. Co. K, 25th; e. March 20, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

973 Hall, Lewis A., Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, HI.; 

draws a pension; ad. Colorado bprings, Colo. 

974 Hall, Samuel, P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 27, 1861, Kidder, Mo. 

975 Hall, Thomas, P. Co. H, 25th; e. , Nodawav Co., Mo. 

976 Halloran. A. J., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 31, 1861^ Omaha, Neb. 

977 Halpin, Michael, P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

978 Ham, Wm., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Nov. 16, 1861, est. Joseph, Mo. 

979 Halierman, Oliver, Lst Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. May 10, 1862, Prairie 

City, 111.; ad. Toptka, Kas. 

980 Hamblin, Wilson D., P. Cos. H, D and C, Erg.; e. Nov. 17, 1863. 

981 Hummell, Isaac, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861. New London, Iowa. 

982 Hamilton, Benj. F.. P. Cos F and B, Eng. ; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Grand Dttour,Ill.; 

pensioned; ad. Haskell, Kas. 

983 Hamilton. Samuel H., P. Cos. C and B, Eng ;e.Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

984 Hammer, James F., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Nov'^ 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

985 liammon, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 1861, Kansas Citv, Mo. 

986 Hammond, George V., P. Co. D, 25lh; e. July 29, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

987 Hammond, Robert, P. Co.G, 25ih; e. Feb. 18, 186:^, St. Joseph, Mo. 

988 Hamp, Henry. P. Co. A. 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

989 Hampton, J., P. Co. H, Eng.; e. . 

990 Hampton, James V., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861, New London, Iowa; 

died at luka. Miss., of acute dysentery, Oct. 1863. 

991 Hampton, Wm. H., P. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861, New London, 

Iowa; ad. New London, Iowa. 

992 Hampton, Michael, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D,Eng.; e. April 15, 1863, Roch- 

GStcr ]\Io. 

993 Hand, John, P. Co. G. 25tb; e. June 15, 1861. Kansas City, Mo. 

994 Hanly, Jas.. P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 15, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

995 Hankins, Wm.. P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C. Eng. ; e. Nov. 11, 1861. 

996 HARDING, CHESTER, Col. 25th; e. April 10, 1862, St. Louis, Mo. He was 

Adjutml-General of Missouri under Governor Gamble until appointed 
Colonel of the Twenty-fifth Regiment; was njustertd out DtC(nil er 31, 1863, 
upon consolidation with the Engineer Regiment; afterward served as Colonel 
of the Forty-third Missouri Regimtnt, and served with that Regiment in 
Missouri until June 30, 1865, when tliat Regiment was mustertd out. He 
afterward practiced law in St. Louis, Mo., and died there about ten years 
after the close of the war. 

997 Hawley, Gustavus, P. Co. F, Eng.;e. Oct. 10, 1861, Shell Rock, Iowa, ad. 

the fiHvne place. 

998 HAWLEY, JAS. B., Lt. Co. B, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo., disch. 

Jan. 1, 1864; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

999 Hawkins, James A., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 15, 1862, Rochester, Mo. 

1000 Hawkins, John, P. Co. A. 25th; e. Jan. 3, 1862, Troy, Kas.; shot by 

guerrillas near Waverly, Tenn.. July, ]b64. 

1001 Hiwkins, Wm. 1st, P. Co. E. 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

1002 Hawkins, Wm. 2d, P. Co. E. 25th; e. Nov. 26, 1861, Page Co., Iowa. 

1003 Haupt, Chas. C, P. Cos. G, I and I), Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, at Cape 

Girardeau, Mo ; pensioned; ad. Kurreville, Mo. 

1004 Haupt. Henry, P. Co B. 25 h; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1005 Hirden, AIe.\'. C, P. Cos. E, 25th; G and C, Eng.;e. July 19, 1862, Holt 

Co.. Mo. 



206 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEER. 

1006 Harden, David C, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Avon, 111. He 

is at present an inmate of the Kansas Insane Asylum, the result of an 
accident while he was driving a mule team in the service; ad. 603 Locust 
St., Ottawa, Kas. 

1007 Harding, Wm., P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 15, ls61, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1008 Hardmau, Samuel C, P. Cos. Fand B, Eng.; e. Oct. 25, 1861, Dixon, 111., vet. 

1009 Hardway, Jacob C, P. Cos. F and B. Eng.; e. Oct. 23, 1861, Bloomington, 

111.; ad. same; vet. 

1010 Hardway, John T., P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 24, 1861, Bloomington, 

111.; vet.; ad. same. 

1011 Ilardwick, Ferdinand, Cor. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo. 

1012 Harelson, Wm.,P. Cos. B. 25th; L and E. Eng ; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1013 Harlan, Gilbert, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Dec. 16, 1861, Fremont, Iowa. 

1014 Harlow, J as. H., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1015 Harmon, H. B., P. Cos. H and D, Eug.; e. Oct. 5, 1862. 

1016 Harmer, Arthur, P. Co. B. Eng. ; e. Sept. 9, 1861. 

1017 Harness, Abe, P. Co. A, 25th; e. March 1, 1862, St. .loseph. Mo. 

1018 Harper, Silas, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1. 1861. St. Jospeh, Mo. 

1019 Harness, Seneca, P. Co. A, 25th ; e. Aug. 6, 1861, St Joseph. Mo. 

1020 Harr, Geo., P Co. A, 25th ; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo, 

1021 Harrington, Elisha, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug 15, 1861, Adrian Mich.; injured 

on board of boat Chickasaw Bayou, March, 1863. 

1022 Harrigan, Jas., Sergt. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Cedar Falls, Iowa ; ad. 

Dubuque, Iowa. 

1023 Harris, David C, P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa ; draws pension ; ad. same. 
1034 Harris, Geo. H., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 22, 1862, St. Cath- 
arine, Mo. ; ad. Wiuigan, Mo. 

1025 Harris, James, P. Co. G, 25th ; e. July 11, 1861, Kansas City Mo. 

1026 Harris, James, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. Dec. 16, 1861, Nodaway Co., 

Mo.; ad. Tarkio, Mo. 

1027 Harris, John, P. Co. H, 25th ; e. March 19, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1028 Harris, Wm., P. Cos. I and C, Eng. ; e. Oct. 6, 1861, Hardin, Iowa. 

1029 Harris, Henry, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 22,1862, at Hawley- 

ville, Iowa ; ad. same. 

1030 Harris, Daniel, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 22, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa; ad. Clarinda, Iowa. 

1031 Harrison, Robert J., P. Cos B and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1032 Harrison, Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861. 

1033 Karrison, Wm. H., P. Co. B, 25th; e. Sept. 9, 1861. 

1034 Hart, Frank, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; ad. 

Smithfield, HI. 

1035 Hartman, Henry B., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carlyle. 111.: 

died March, 1888. 

1036 Hartman, Jacob, P. Co. G, Eug.;e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau. Mo. 

1037 Hartuug, Cliristian, Sergt. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. bept. 13, 1861, Cape Gir- 

ardeau, Mo.; dead. 

1038 Hasselpflua-. C. G.. P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1039 HASIE, CHAS. R., Lt. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; res. May 6, 1862; dead. 

1040 HASIE, M.S., Maj. Eng.; e. Oct. 31, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; res. Aug. 31, 

1862, at .lackson, Tenn. Maj. Hasie is a pro.-:perous merchant and capital- 
ist in Kansas; ad. Arkansas City, Kas. 

1041 Hascall, Chas. , P. Co. E, Eng. ; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. ; died; widow. 

Emily E., resides in Cuba, N. Y. 

1042 Hastinsrs, Jackson, alias Jack Sanders — see Sanders, Jack. 

1043 Hiffield, Joseph, P. Co. C. Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Avon, 111.; deserted, Mem- 

phis, Tenn., Feb. 20, 1863. 

1044 Hslfield, Wm. H., Cor. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Avon, HI.; disch. 

March 23. 1863. 

1045 Hatsch, Jacob, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. .Joseph, Mo. 



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1064 

1065 
1066 



THE KOSTER. 207 

1046 Hatton, Willis, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich- ad. Mar- 

shall, 111. 

1047 Hayman, John, P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Oct. 3, 1801, Flora, 111.; disch dis 

Oct. 18, 1863, St. Louis, Mo. 

1048 Haynes, Daniel, P. Cos. E and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; is a 

pensioner; ad. Deeitield, Mich. 

1049 Hanson, Mm., P. Co. K, 25th; e. ; ad. Hamburg, Iowa 

1050 Haynes, Wni., P. Co C, Eng.; e. Feb. 22, lfe62. 

1051 Hayes, Geo. W., Sergt. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Paris, III.; has 
a pension; ad. Lacona, 111. 

Hays, Isaac R., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co 
Mo.; ad. Fairport, Mo. 
1058 Hays, Pat., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 7, 1861, Omaha Neb. 

1054 Hays, Roland, P. Cos. E, 25th; G and C, Eng.; e. Oregon, Mo.; ad same 

1055 Hazard, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; taken pris- 

oner before Corinth, May, 1862; ad. Oregon, Mo. 

1056 Hazie, Carl, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept 26, 1861, Bloomington, 111. 

1057 Heald, Ira, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Sept. 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1058 Hearu, Wm. H., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Oct. 16, 1862, De Kalb Co., Mo 

1059 Hebner, Geo., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 24, 1861, St. Louis, Mo 

1060 Heckenleible, Jacob, P. Co. B. 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Jos-eph Mo 

1061 Hecker, Chas., P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. May 7. 1861, CarJyle, 111.; ad. same. 

1062 Heep, John, Cor. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111 ; dead 
HeffersoD, Wm., P. Co. G 25th; e. June 24, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 
Heefner, Chas. W., P. Cos. B and C, Eng.; e. Julv 28, 1861, Paris, 111. ; has a 

pension; ad. Conlogue, 111. 
Heefner, Levi, Mus. Cos. B and C, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, III 
Heggi, Frank, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.;e. Dec. 9,1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1067 Hein, John B., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 16, 1862, Omaha, Neb. 

1068 Heins, JohnF., P Cos. K and B, Eng. ; e. Sept. 28,1861, Wapello, Iowa ; is a 

pensioner; ad. Wapello, Iowa. 

1069 Heins, Nicholas, P. Co. H, 25th; e. . 

1070 Hildreth, Isaac, P. Co. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. Griggsville, 111. 

1071 Helms, John C, Sergt. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Vermillion, 111.; 

dead. 

1072 Hemsprauch, Bennie, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861. Dubuque, Iowa ; died 

April 6, 1863, of small pox. Young's Point, La. 

1073 Hencke, John, P. Cos. Land I, Eag.;e. ; died 1878. 

1074 Hender.shott, Frank, P. Co. E, Eng.; e, Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1075 Henderson G. W., P. Co. H. Eng.; e. .Paris, 111.; died. 

1076 HENDERSON, J. 1)., Lt. and A. Q. M., 25th ; e, Nov. 1, 1861; disch. Jan 1, 

1864. 

1077 Henderson, Saml. P. Co. F, Eng.; e, Sept. 9, 1861, Mineral Point, Wis.; 

died Otterville, Mo., Feb. 26, 1862, of lung disease. 

1078 Henderson, Washington, P C( s. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Paris, 111. 
Hennes, Wm., Sergt. Cos. G, I and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 13. 1861, Cape Girar- 
deau, Mo. ; vet. 

Hennes-sy, Jerry, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Dec. 11, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1081 Hennine. Ernest. P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1082 HENNINGS, HENRY, Lt. Co. L, Eng.; e. June 8, 1863; disch. Jan. 1. 1864. 
Henry, Albert G., P. Cos. C. and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 18C1, Prairie City, 

111.; ad. Pleasanton, Kas. 
Henry, Wm., P. Co. I, 25th; e. May 30, 1863, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 
Hensel, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1086 Hensler, John, Sergt. Cos. L, I and D, Ensr.; e. Aug 15, 1862 

1087 Hen.sley, Wm. H., Sergt. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1861, Albert Lea, 

j\Iinn.: ad. lowaville, Kas. 

1088 Henze, Henry, P. Cos. G. and I, Eng.; e. Sept, 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

dead. 

1089 HEi^UAMBOURG, ALEX. G., Capt. Cos. G and E, Eng.; e. Oct. 31, 1861, 

St. Louis, Mo.: res. June 2, 1862; promoted to Colonel of 40th Mo. Inf.; 
ad. 1014 Dolman st,, St. Louis, Mo. 



1079 

1080 
1081 
1082 
1083 

1084 
1085 



208 THE FIRST MISSOBRI ENGINEER. 

1090 Herbst, Mich., Cor. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; draws a pension; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1091 Hermann, Frank, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1«61, Burlington, Iowa. 

1092 Herring. Silas. P. t:o. A, 25th; e. Feb. 17, 1862. St. Joseph, Mo. 

1093 HENION, TUNIS W., Capt. Co. E, Enc; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; 

res. March 26, 1862; dead. 

1094 Hiatt, Jesse, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 22, 1861, Atchison Co., 

Mo.; pensioner; ad. Independence, Kas. 

1095 Hess, Henry, P. Cos. D. F and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1861, Keokuk, Iowa. 

1096 HENSLER, JOHN E., Capt. Co. I, 35th, and L, Eng.; res. June 7, 1863. 

1097 Hibbard, Jas. A., P. Co. A, 25ih; e. July 1, 1861, Troy, Kas. 

1098 High, Charles, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Nov. 20, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1099 MIGHT, CHAS. E., Lt. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 26, 1861, Bur- 

lington, Iowa. 

1100 Hildebiddle, Chas. T., Cor. Co. H, 25th; e. May 26, 1863, Guilford, Mo.; 

killed in the Centralia, Mo., massacre. 

1101 HILL, EBENM., Capt. Co. D, Maj. and Lt.-Col. Eng.; e. Sept. 10, 1861; 

disch. July 22, 1865; is a hardware merchant at Hartland, Kas. 

1102 Hill, Frederick, P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, CassvlUe, Wis.; 

dead. 

1103 Hill, George, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. March 26, 1863; ad. Burlington, Iowa. 

1104 Hill, Geo., Sergt. Co. K, 25th, G, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1862, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

1105 Hills, Henry, Cor. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

ad. Yarmouth, Iowa. 

1106 Hill. Jackson, P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. March 17, 1863, Hamilton, 

Mo. 

1107 Hill, Ichabod B., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Oct. 27, 1861, Holt Co.. Mo. 

1108 Hill, Perrv P. Cos. I, D, F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Rushville, 111.; vet. 

1109 HILL, AVM., Capt. Cos. I and E, and Maj. Eng.;e. Sept. 6, 1861, Rushville, 

111.; dead. 

1110 Hinds, Wm. IL, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. . 

1111 Hines, Andrew, P. Cos. A and^E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1112 Heinze, Peter, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Oct. 10, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1113 Hobbs, Lyman S., P. Co. C; e. . 

1114 Hills, H. A., P. Co. K, 25th; e. ; ad. Elkhorn, Kas. 

1115 Holbrecker, Thos. F., P. Cos. B, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, St. 

Louis, Mo ; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

1116 Hockett, Mahlon. Cor. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug 12, 1862, Paris, 111.; 

pensioner; ad. Paris, 111. 

1117 Hofer, John J., P. Cos. L, I and E, Eng.; e. . 

1118 HolT, Adol., Sergt. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13,1861. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1119 HefTerman, Chas.. P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

1120 Hoffman, John M., Cor. Co. D, Eng.; e. . 

1121 Hoffman. Mathew, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1122 Hoffman, Saml., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng; e. December 24, 1863. White 

Cloud, Kas. 

1123 Hogan, Owen, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1124 Hogan, Thos., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24, 1861. Kansas City, Mo. 

1125 Holland, Miles H., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. March 1, 1862, Haw- 

leyville, Iowa; draws a pension; ad. Hawlevville, Iowa. 

1126 Holcomb,Chestnut W., Sergt. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1861, 

Stewartsville, Mo. 

1127 Holden. Samuel, P. Cos. H, D andC, Eng.; e. Aug. 25, 1861, Bloomfield, 111.; 

ad. Cherry Point, 111. 

1128 Holes, Alby, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Nov. 23, 1863. 

1129 Hollenbeck. Jas.W., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Jan. 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

vet. Jan. 16, 1864; ad. Alexis. 111. 

1130 Ilollenherk, Andrew J., Sergt. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 10, 1861, 

Guilford. Mo. 

1131 Holliday, Linden, P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 18, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa; a Pensioner; ad. Memory, Iowa. 

1132 Holliday, Moses H.. P. Cos. D and C, Eng; e. Oct. 18, 1861, Middletown, 111.; 

pensioned; ad. Carthage, Mo. 



THE KOSTER. 209 

1133 Holliday, Robt., P. Co K, 25th; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

1134 Holliday, John S., P. Co. E. Eug.; e. July 13, 1861, disch. at St. Louis Gen. 

Hosp., April, 1803, died Tina, Mo., April 16, 1887. 

1135 Hollisler, Perry G., Cor. Co.s. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie 

City, 111. 

1136 Holloway, Washt., P. Cos. I, C and A, Eng.; e. Nov. 6, 1862, Trenton, Iowa. 

1137 Hollovoit. Edward, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 20, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1138 Holly, Jas, F., P. Cos. E, 25th; G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1862, Atchison, 

Mo. 

1139 Holton, Robt. C, P. Cos. D, 25th; A and B, Eng.; e. June 21, 1863, Living- 

ston, Co., Mo. 

1140 HOOKER, HORACE B., Lt. Cos. I and C, Eug. ; e. Oct. 27. 1862, disch. Jan. 

1, 1864, is a proprietor of an extensive nursery near Rochester, N. Y.; ad. 
same. 112 West St. Paul St. 

1141 HOOKER, JA8. W., Lt. Co. A, Eng.; e. Nov. 1, 1862; res. July 11, 1863; dead 

1142 Hopkins, , Cor. Co. E, Eng. ;e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; died March 

3, 1864, Waverly. Tenn. 

1143 Hoover, Benj. K., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

ad. New Sharon, Iowa. 

1144 Horn, Jasper, P. Cos. A, 25th; M and E, Eng.; e. Nov. 18, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1145 Homer, Arthur, P. Cos. C and B, Lng.; e. Sept 16, 1861, Dallas City, 111. 

1146 Howard, Chas., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Burlington, Iowm. 

1147 Howell, David S.. P. Cos. H,D and C, Eng ; e. Aug. 12,1862, Sandford, Ind.; 

ad. same; has pension. 

1148 Howell, — , P. Co. H, 25th; e. . 

1149 Hoy. Jas., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Bloomington, 111.; died Aug. 

1862, at Jackson, Miss. 

1150 Hubbard, Alonzo, P Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1151 HUDSON, H. E., Lt. and Capt. Co. E, Adjt. Eng.; e. Oct. 31, 1861, St. 

Louis, Mo.; discli. Oct. 31, 1864; died in Memphis, Tenn., about 1877. 

1152 Hudson, Levi J., P. Co. B, Ens;.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1153 Hudson, AVm., Sergt. Co. E, 25th., e. July 22, 1861, Forrest City, Mo. 

1154 Huff, — , P. Co. H, Eng.; e. ; disch. dis. 1862. 

1155 Hughbanks, Henry B., Cor. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e, Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie 

City, 111. 

He was quite young when enlisted and scarcelj^ of age wlien ili>cli. ; he is. 

now a prosperous and well-to-do lawyer in Osage City, Kas. 

1156 Huglis, Isaac, P. Cos. D and C, Eug.; e. Oct. 17, 1861, Mt. Sterling, 111.:, 

died in 1888, Alexandria, Mo. 

1157 Hughes, John C, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1862, AtcbLsoii 

Co., Mo.; ad. Hamburg, Iowa. 

1158 Hughes, Marshal, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Jan. S, 180--!, Omaha, 

Neb. 

1159 Hughes, Mich. ^Y., Cor. Co. D, 25th; e. July 18, 1861, St. Josf[.li. Mo.; 

died at Dorchester, Neb. 

1160 Hughes, Wm., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Feb. 27, 1862, Sidney, Iowa; ad Hamburg, 

Iowa (or Savannah Mo.). 

1161 Hulick, Joseph, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, 15ui liiigu.n, Iowa; 

died at Dorchester, Neb., in 1886. 

1162 Hull, Mack, P. Co. D. Eng-.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, 111 ; (ii.M-h. dis. 

Otterville, Mo., Feb. 6, 1862. 

1163 Humbolt, Chas., P. Cos. H. D and C, Eng.; e. Nov 15, 18()l, C.-dhouu. 11!.- 

draws a pension; ad. Olivia, Minn. 

1164 Humi.ston, Jas., Cor. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1801, AVapdl.. h.wji 

1165 Humistou, John, P. Co. K, Eng.; e Sept. 28, 1861. Wap.ll.., Lava: ad. 

Wapello, Iowa. 

1166 Hunter, Christopher, P. Cos. I and C. Eng. ; e. Sept. 21, :861, Cc.lumbus 

City, Iowa. 

1167 Hunt, H. N., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich ; ha.'- a [x n;-i(ui; 

ad. Benedict, Neb. 

1168 Hunter, John G., P. Co. H. 25th; e. Dec. 21. 1862, Nodaway. Co., Mo. 

1169 Hunze, Auc, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. lo, 1861, Cape Giranlejiu, Mc; 

pensioned; ad. same. 



210 THE FIRST MISSOURI P^NGINEEES. 

1170 Hurst, Jackson, P. Cos. D. 25tli, A and B, Ens;.; e. Dec. 11, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1171 Hurst, Jonas F., P. Co. E, 25tli; e. July 22, 1861, White Cloud, Kas. 

1172 HUJST, L. E., Chap., Eug.; e. July, 1863, Pocahontas, Tenn.; disch. Jan. 1, 

1864. 

1173 Hurst, St. Clair, Cor. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eug.; e. JS'ov. 20, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

1174 Hurley, Tnos., P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1175 Hurst Thomas, P. Co. H. 25th; e. Sept. 24, 1862, Iron Co., Mo. 

1176 Hurst, Wm., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1862, Iron Co., Mo. 

1177 Hurst, Wm. C, P. Co. K, 25th; e. Oct. 18, 1862, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

1178 Huston, Thos., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Sept. 17, 1861, Plattsbure, Mo. 

1179 Hutchings, Joseph, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Sept. 13, 1862, St. L. uis, ]\Io. 

1180 Hutchinson, Jas., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 31, 1861, Bloomingtou, 111.; died 

in 1862. 

1181 Hutchinson, Jas. 2d, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 81, 1861, Bloomington, 111. 

1182 Hutman, Jacob, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

1183 Hutton, Henry, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13,1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1184 Hybarger, David H., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1185 Hybarger, John C, P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. 

Paris, 111. 

1186 Ihm, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, ^lo. 

1187 Imz, George, Sergt Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St Joseph, Mo. 

1188 Imz, Peter, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1189 Inskeep, Joseph H., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eug.; e. Oct. 2, 1862, Nodaway 

Co., Mo. 

1190 Irwin, James, P. Cos. H, 25th. M andE, Eng.; e. Oct. 2, 1862, Nodaway Co., 

Mo. ; pensioner. 

1191 Irwin, Robt. C , P. Co. H, 25th; e. April 1, 1862, Nodaway Co, Mo.; ad. 

Maryville, Mo. 

1192 Irwin, Hugh, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eug. ; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., Mo.; 

pensioner; ad. Hays Citv, Kas 

1193 Irwin, John, Cor. Cos. G,"25th, L and E, Eng.; e. July 21, 1801, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1194 Irwin, John, Sergt. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. Feb. 2, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo., has a pension; ad. South West Citv, McDonald Co., Mo. 

1195 Ihle, May, P. Co. B, 25th, e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1196 Jacobs, theoph., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

1197 JACOBSON, AUGUSTUS, Adjt. and Capt. Co. E, Eng. ; e. Julv 26,1861; 

res. Sept. 7, 1863; promoted Col. 27th Mo. Inf. Sept. 27, 1862. Ad. Chicago, 
111. 

1198 Jennings, Francis A., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Avon, 111.; deserted 

Feb. 1, 1863, at Memphis, Tenn.; ad. Monmouth, 111. 

1199 Jerrold, Francis F., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

died April 15, 1864. Gen. Hosp., Clarksville, Tenn. 

1200 Jewell, Wm. P. Cos. B and K, Eng. ; e. Julv 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1201 Jewett, Moses, Cor. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Wapello, Iowa; ad. New 

Boston, 111. 
1203 James, Geo., P. Co. E, 25th, e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

1203 James, Geo. B., P. Co. ; e. ]\Iarch 2, 1862, Troy, Kas. 

1204 James. Henry, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1861, Vermillion, 111.; 

draws pension; ad. Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, Kas. 

1205 James, John W., P. Cos G, 25th, Land E, Eng.;e. Feb. 14, 1862, Gentry 

Co., Mo. 

1206 James, Wm.. P. Co. A, Eng.; e. Sept. 27, 1863, Weston, Mo. 

1207 James, Wm. IL, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 19, 1862, Troy. Kas. 

1208 Jackson, Jasper, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Sept. 1, 1862, Kansas City Mo, 

1309 Jackson, Jas. H., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. July 15, 1863; Obion, 
Tenn.; pensioner; ad. Omio, Jewell Co., Kas. 

1210 Jackson, Wm., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D Eng. ; e. March 1, 1862, Chlllicothe, 

Mo. 

1211 Jared, Thos. N., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 3, 1863, Vermillion, 111. 

1312 Jarter, John A.. P. Co. — 25th. — and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 8, 1862. 

1313 John, Francis M., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 5, 1862, Augusta, 111. 



THE ROSTER. 211 

1214 Johns, Nathan H., Sergt. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Feb. 16, 18C2, Vermillion, 

111.; dead 

1215 Johns, Charles, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 6, 1861, Doniphan Co., Kas. 

1216 Johnson, Andrew J., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Auff. 4, 1861, Prairie City 

111.; ad. Friend, Neb. ' ^' 

1217 Johnson, Harley, P. Co. E. Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. 

Ottawa Lake Mich. 

1218 Johnson, Henry, P. Co. B, 25th; e, June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1219 Johnson, Hiram, P. Co. E, Ener.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1220 Johnson, Marion B., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 19, 1861, Pleasant View, Kas 

1221 Johnson, Thos. K., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111 • disch 

dis. Dec. 31, 1861. St. Louis, Mo. 

1222 Johnson, Wm. R., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 6, 1861, Hardin, Iowa 

1223 John.son, Wm. B., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 9, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1224 Johnson, SethH., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. 

Fere Cheney. Mich. 

1225 Jones, Allen, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Sandford, Ind. 

1226 Jones, Amos K., Cor. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, f861, St. Joseph, Mo. ' 

1227 Jones, Dwight, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e" Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City 111 

1228 JONES, E. L.. Lt. Co. A, Eng.; a. Aug. 2, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; res. March 

2, 1862. 

1229 Jones, George, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1862, Manchester, Iowa; died at 

Washington a returned prisoner in 1862. 

1230 Jones, James B., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. ; ad. Malvern, Iowa. 

1231 Jones, James H., P. Cos. K, 25th, L and E, Eng ; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Glenwood, 

Iowa; ad. same. 

1232 Jones, James W., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 27, 1861, Sandford, Ind.; 

a pensioner; ad. Sandford, Vigo Co., Ind. 

1233 Jones, John F., P. Cos. I and C,"Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1861, H:arding, Iowa 

1234 Jones, Josiah, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo 

1235 Jones, Peter A., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 29, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1236 Jones, Samuel, Sergt. Co. E, Ene:.; e. Auij. 13, 1861, Adrian. Mich. 

1237 Jones, Wm., P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng. : e. June 25, 1861, Gallatin Mo 

1238 Jones, Wm. H., P. Cos. D and H, Eng.; e. Sept. 27, 1861, Sandford, Ind.; ad 

North Bend, (or Sand Creek,) Neb. 

1239 Jones, Wm. H., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Sept. 21, 1862, Atchison Co., Mo 

1240 Jordan, Fred. W., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug 13. 1861, Adrian, Mich; ad. same. 

1241 Jordan, James, P. Co. I, 25th: e. Aug. 1, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1242 Jourdan, Robert H., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo • 

ad. Clay City, Ind. 

1243 Jordan, Sanford C, P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, 111.; ad. 

Rinard, 111. 

1244 Johnson, F. M., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Avon, 111.; ad. 

Augusta, Iowa. 

1245 Johnson, J. R., P. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Avon, 111.; ad. Busli- 

nell,Ill. 

1246 -Jones, Jared P., P. Co. E. Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. Sol- 

diers' Home, Leavenworth. Kas. 

1247 Judson, Lewis C.,P. Co. E, Eng; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. Mis- 

souri Valley. Iowa. 

1248 Julien, .lohn, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1249 Julien, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Nov. 11, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1250 .Tulien, Wm. E., P. Co. C, 25th; e. March 2, 1861, Independence, Mo. 

1251 Kacherer, Lorenz, P. Cos. L. I and D, Enff. ; e. . 

1252 Kaempfer, Wm., P Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept7l3, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1253 Kane, Jas., P. Co. F, 25th: e. Jan. 7, 1862, Third Fork, Mo.; ad. Soldiers' 

Home, Leavenworth. Kas. 

1254 Kansch, Chas., P. Co. B 25fh; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1255 Karler, Gregory, P. Co B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, INIo. 

1256 Ka.ssell, Jno., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

has pension: ad. Egypt Mills, Mo. 

1257 Karstncr. Enistus, P" Cos. L and I, Ena:.; e. . 

1258 Kauih. Philip, P. Co. B, 25th; e. JunelS, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 



212 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1*^59 Kea^ue3^ Nathaniel, Sergt. Cos. G, 25tli, L and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 28, 1861, 
Wyandotte, Kas. 

1260 Kearney, Stephen. Sergt. Cos. G, 25th, L and E. Eng.; e. June 26, 1861, 

Kansas City, Mo.; June 12, 1865, promoted Lt. 

1261 Keating, John, Cor. Co. E. 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Forrest City, Mo. 

1262 Keatly, Henry, P. Co. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Feb. 1, 1861, Oregon. Mo. 

1263 Kelly, Daniel, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. Oceana, 

Mich. 

1264 Kelly, Lawrence, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1265 Kelly, Pat., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1266 Kelly, T. Jeff, Cor, Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept 9, 1861, Avon, 111.; ad. same. 

1267 Kelly, Phil, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, Independence, Mo. 

1268 Kelly, Robert, P. Cos. C, 25th; A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 19, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1269 Kelly, Wm., P. Co. F, Ensr.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

1270 Keller, Alfred, Cook (coloied), Co. D, Eug.; e. April 1, 1861, Lake Provi- 

dence, La. 

1271 Kelsey, Lewis, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14. 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1272 Kennedy, Alvy, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Feb. 12, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1273 Kennedy, Jerry, P. Cos. G, 25th; L and E, Eng.; e. J^ecember 30, 1861, 

Kansas City, Mo. 

1274 Kenneday, M. L., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Nov. 28, 1861, Trov, Kas. 

1275 Kennedy, Robert B., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct"! 16, 1861, McGregor, 

Iowa. 

1276 Kewin, Edwin, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.;e. Jan. 14, 1862, Oregon, Mo.; 

ad. Forrest City, Mo. 

1277 Keys. Franklin, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 1, 1862, Bucklin, Mo. 

1278 Keys, John, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Towanda, III ; ;.d. .same. 

1279 Kidd, John B., P. Cos. K, B and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 18, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

a pensioner; ad. Smithfield, 111. 

1280 Keifer, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1281 Keith, Geo. J., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1282 Keith, Jas. P., P. Co. H. 25th; e. Sept. 26, 1862, Iron Co., Mo. 

1283 Keith, ,P. Co.D, 25th; e. July 16, 1861, St. .loseph, Mo. 

1284 Kilgour, John M., P. Co. D, 25th: e. Aug. 9. 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 
1265 Kill, Morritz, P. Co B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1286 KILP, ANTHONY, Lt. Co. G. Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861; dead. 

1287 Kimball, David, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861. Adrian, Mich. 

1288 Kimball, Henry H., P. Co. E.Eog.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1289 King. Eben S., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1861, Dubuque; Iowa. 

1290 King, Enoch. P. Co. H. 25tli; e. Sept. 29, 1862, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1291 Kiug, Wm. F., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 29, 1862, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1292 Kinkel, Philip, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. ; e. . 

1293 Kerby, Phelan. P. Co. A. 25th e. June 13, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1294 Kipple, Fred, P. Co. B. 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1295 Kirk, Anton, Mus. Co. B, 25Mi; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1296 Kirkham, Theo., P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 3, 1861, Easton, Mo. 

1297 Kirchoff, Henry, P. Cos G, I and D,*Eng.; e. Aug. 18, 1862, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo. ; ad. same. 

1298 Kirsch, Andrew, P. Co. A, 25th; e ; ad. INIuscatine, Iowa. 

1299 Kise, Danl., P. Cos. H and D, Ene:.;e. ; ad. Cherry Point, III. 

1300 Kishee, Geo., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Au^. 15, 1861, St. Lous. Mo. 

1301 Kitch, John. P. Co. E, Ena;.; e. Nov. 1, 1861, . 

1302 Kitchen, John, P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 25. 1862, Maryville, Mo. 
1.303 Kitchen, Christian, P. Co A. 25fli; e. July 3. 1861, St. JoMph, Mo. 

1304 Klaunenberg, AVm. P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1861, Cape Gir: r- 

deau. Mo ; ad. Carlinville. 111. 

1305 Kiel). Christian. P. Cos. L, I and D; e. . 

1306 KLINCJLER, FRED., Lt. Co. B, 25th: e. Feb. 1, 1862. St. Jose])l., Mo; 

wounded ;i,r, battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862; res Sept 7. 18^2. 

1307 Klinirman, Martin, P. Cos. 1 and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 27, 186L McGrcg-T, 

[owa: ad Hisrhland Iowa. 

1308 Klink. JmpoI). P Co. B, 25th: e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1309 KNAPPER, J. G., Lt. Co. B, Eng.; e. Mar. 25, 1863; res. May 9, 1863 



TIIK KOSTER. 2 1 •'> 

1310 KNOWER, CHAS., Asst. Surg. Eog.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. Was a 

gniduate of Maryland University Scbool of Medicine; discharged Octobei, 
81, 1864; settled in St. Louis, Missouri, in the surgical instrument business; 
died about 1878. 

1311 Knowles, Caleb, Sergt. Co. D, Eng. ; e. . 

1813 Knox, Wm., P. Co. 1, 3oth; e. Aug. '.i7, :861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1313 Koch, Louis, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

1314 Koch, John M., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; is pensioned ; ad. Sheridan, Cal. 

1315 Koho, Wm. A., Sergt. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. Oct, 15, 1861, Kentucky, 111. ; 

draws a pension; ad. Vermillion, 111. 

1316 Koho, Benj., P. Cos. B and K, Eng ; e, Oct. 15, 1861, Kentucky, III. 

1317 Koonts, F.'M., P. Cos. H and D, Eng ; e. Oct. 15, 1861, Vermillion, 111.; ad. 

Vermillion, 111 

1318 Kopper, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

ad. same; pensioner. 

1319 KORELL, VALENTINE, Lt. Co. B, 25th. e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; 

res. June 21, 1862; ad. Barnard, Mo. 

1320 Kost, Geo. L., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Dec. 30, 1861, Stewartsville, Mo.; ad. Cam- 

eron, Mo. 

1321 Kroll, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.: e. Sept, 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1322 Kucher, Julius, P. Co. D, Eng. ; e. . 

1324 Keubler, John. P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

13-^5 Kuncie, Daniel, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. .loseph Mo. 

1326 Kunof, Chas., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1327 Kunzie, Fred. P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

1328 Kurtz Peter, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.: e. Nov. 8, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. 

dis. June 30, 1863, Jackson, Tenn.; drawls a pension; ad. Ma.wille. Mo. 

1329 Kusche, Julius, P. Cos L, I and D, Eng. ; e. . 

1330 Kuykendall, Leonard E., P. Co. H, Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1862, Sandford, Ind. 

1331 KREBS, JOHN, Lt. Co. I 25th and L, Eng. ; disch. Sept. 24, 1863. 

1332 Labash, John, P. Cus. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.;e. April 4, 1863, Nodaway 

Co., Mo. 

1333 La Baume, Fred, Sergt. Co. G, 25th; e. Jan. 4, 1862, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1334 La Baume, Francis F., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1335 Lacy, L. R., P. Cos. G, 25th, Land E, Eng.; e. Feb. 12, 1862, Plattsburg, 

Mo. 

1336 Laimon, John W., Sergt. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. 

Svlvania, O. 

1337 Lake, Seneca, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Avon, 111.; draws a 

pension ; ad. Salem. Kas. 

1338 Lakey,JamesA., P. Cos. H. D and C, Eiig.;e. Aug. 16,1863, Pocahontas, 

Tenn.; is a pensioner; ad. Terre Haute, Ind. 

1339 Lakey, John W., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C. Eng.; e. Feb. 17, 1862, Fremont, 

Iowa; ad. Sidney, Iowa. 

1340 Lakey, Pleasant H., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1863, Pocahon- 

tas, Tenn. 

1341 Lakey, William, P. Cos. H. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1863, Pocahontas, 

Tenn. 

1342 Lamb, Benjamin F., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111. 

1343 Lamb, Robert, P. Cos. G and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo ; a pensioner; ad Exeter, 111. 

1344 Laimon, William IL, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, Atchi-son, Kas. 

1345 LANCASTER, L. R., Lt. Cos. D, 2-.th and A. Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, De 

Kalb Co., Mo ; is a prominent lawyer in St. .loseph, Mo. 

1346 Lane, Edward, P. Co. K, Eng.;e. Sept. 25, 1861, Burlington. Iowa. 

1347 Lane, Wm. J., P. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. Aus. 12, 1882, Paris, 111. 

1348 Lainey, Edwin, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 18. 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1349 Lanztine, Ernest, Sergt. Co. B, 25t)i; e. July 13. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1350 Lape, Hiram T., Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111.; ad. Roseville, 111. 

1351 Larrimer, John P., Co. A, 25th; e. March 1, 1862, Nebraska City, Neb. 

1352 Larrimer. Jas., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Independence, Mo. 



214 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1353 Larrisoii, Martin, P. Co. D, 25tl); e. July 12, 1861, St. .Joseph, Mo. 

1354 Laswell. Cbarnfcll, P. Cos. I, 25tb, H and D, Eng.; e. Dec. 17, 1861, Cam- 

den, Mo. 

1355 Laswell, Lewis, P. Cos. T, 25th, H and D, Eng.;e. Dec. 16, 1861, Camden, Mo. 

1356 Lauer, Henry, Cor. Co. B, 25tli; e. June 13, 1861, St .Joseph, Mo. 

1357 Laur, Philip C, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Aug. 1, 1861, Linneus, Mo. 

1358 Lavin, Edward, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 22, 1801, Ivansas City, Mo. 

1359 Law^ Chas., P. Co. D, Eng. ; e. Aug. 25, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. ; deserted March 

5, 1862, St Louis. 

1360 Lawrence, Henry, P. Co. A, 25th; e, June 25, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1361 Layue, Kichard, P. Cor. Cos. H D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Paris, 111.; 

died at Webster City, Iowa, about 1886. 

1362 Layne, Samuel, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng. ; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Elbridge, 111. 

1363 Leach, Homer, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 29, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1364 Leach, N J., Sergt. Cos. T, 25th, Hand D, Eng.; e. Dec. 14, 1861, Cam- 

eron, Mo. 

1365 Lears, Frank G, P. Co. K, 25th, e. Nov. 7, 1861. 

1366 Lears, John, P. Co. K, 25th, e. Nov. 7, 1861. 

1367 Lee, Geo. W., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1368 Leffler, Jas., P. Co. E, 25tb, e. Feb. 17, 1862. Fremont, Iowa. 

1369 Leffler, Samuel, P. Cos. E,25th, G and C.Eng.; e. Feb. 17, 1862, Fremont, 

Iowa. 

1370 Leigh, Amos H., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie City, HI. 

1371 Leintz, Warner, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.'; e. . 

1372 Leitch, William, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. 

Feb. 6, 1862, Otterville, Mo. 

1373 Lenscke, William, P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mc; 

dead. 

1374 Lenk, Fred, P. Co. B, 25th, e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1375 Leonard, Joseph, P. Co. G, 25th, e. July 9, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1376 Leonard, Samuel, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

1377 Leopold. H., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 24, 1861, St. Louis, Mo ; deserted. 

1378 Leigan, George, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, St. Jo.seph, "Mo. 

1379 Levy, Joseph, P. Cos. K and D, Eng.: e. Sept. IS, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

1380 Lewellen. Zadock, P. Co. K, 25th, e. Oct. 18, 1862. Hawlevville. Iowa. 

1381 Leewin, Silas, P. Co. H, 25th, e. July 30, 1862, Holt Co.. Mo. 

1382 Lewis, Andrew J., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1862, Atchison 

Co., Mo.; ad. Independence, Kas. 

1383 Lewis, George W., P. Co. A, 25th, e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1384 Lewis. Cyrus H. , P. Co. E, Eng. ; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. ; a pensioner; 

ad. Covert, Mich. 

1385 Lewis, John, P. Co. A. Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; killed in 

action Tuscumbia, Miss , June 1, 1862. 

1386 Lewis, Wm. H.,P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Enc; e. June 6, 1863; Atchison Co., 

Mo. 

1387 Libba, Elijah T., Cor. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1861; Camden, HI.; disch. 

dis. June 8, 1862, St. Louis, Mo.; pensioner; ad. Dawson, Neb. 

1388 Linch, Stephen L., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1861: Dubuque, Iowa. 

1389 Lincoln, David, P. Co. E, 25th; e. June 9, 1862, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1390 Linder, Gottfried, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. ; e. . 

1391 Linderman, John H., P. Cos. K and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Wapello, 

Iowa; has a pension; ad. Wapello, Iowa. 

1392 Lindsley, Wm. M., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and I.Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861; Atchison 

Co., Mo.; ad. Watson (or Craig). Mo. 

1393 Linder-son, Elisha W., Sergt. Co. I, 25th; e. July 29, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1394 Lingg, Joseph, P. Co. F.^Eng. ; e. Oct. 31, 1861; Bloomington, 111.; disch. 

dis. Otterville, Mo. Feb. 1862; dead. 

1395 Linn, Chas., P. Cos. K and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 

draws a pension; ad. Clyde, Kas. 

1396 Linn, David, P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 3,1861, Flora, 111. ; has a pension; 

ad. Newton, 111. 

1397 Lindsay, Martin, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Atchison 

Co., Mo.; ad. Lathrop, Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 215 

1398 Lister, Francis, P. Cos. 1, 25th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Oct 6, 1862, Bloomiu<;tOD, 

Mo ; ad. Callisburg, ]Mo. 

1399 Lister, Thos., P. Cos. I, 25th, II and D, Eng.; e, Oct. 6, 1862, Bloomington, 

Mo. 

1400 Lister, Wm., P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eug ; e. Oct. 6, 1861, Bloomington, 

]V[o. ; a pensioner; ad. Macon, Mo. 

1401 Little, Francis, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 3, 1861, St. Joseph, 
J Mo. 

1402 Litchold, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

14G3 Liveugood, Theo. F., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec 15, 1861, Holt 
Co., Mo. 

1404 Living.ston, Alf. H., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 13, 1861, Atchi- 

son Co., Mo. 

1405 Livingston, Francis, P. Cos. A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 17, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, ]Mo. 

1406 Lloyd, Richard, Cor. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; c. Jan. 1, 1862 Chilli- 

CDthe, Mo. ; promoted 2d Lt., June 12, 1865. 

1407 Lochard, Hugh A., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. Dec. 30, 1861, Atchison 

Co . Mo. 

1408 LOCHBILER, CHRISTIAN, Capt Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. June 8, 1863, St. 

Louis, Mo.; disch Oct. 31, 1864, dead. 

1409 Locke, Stephen, P. Co. C, 25th; e. June 4, 1862. 

1410 Locke, Wm., P. Co D, 25th; e. July, 12, 1861. 

1411 Loeffler, Bernhard, P. Co. B, 2oth; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1412 Laehr, Henry, P. Cos. B, 25th, L, Eng ; e. July 23, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; 

i^ a pensioner, ad. Alma, Ivas; wounded in legs at Lexington. 

1413 Loftus, John, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Jo<eph,"Mo. 

1414 Loftus, Michael, P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Dec. 7, 1861, Cameron, 

Mo. ; a pensioner. 

1415 Logue, Erasmus, Cor. Co. I, Eng. ; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Rush-ville, 111.; died, 

Otterville, Mo. 

1416 Lohkamp, Fredk., P. Co. G. Eng.;e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1417 Long, Abner G., P. Co. B, 25th; e. March 10, 1863, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1418 Long, Hiram T., P. Co. B, 25th; e, March 10, 1863, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1419 Long, Maurice, P. Co. E, Eng,; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; draws a 

pension; ad. Willow Springs, Mo. 

1420 Long, Samuel, P. Co. xi, Eng. 

1421 Lono-, Wm., P. Co. G. 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas Citv, Mo. 

1422 Look, Henry. P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13. 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1423 Lord, Geo. T., Cor. Co. H, 25th; e Dec. 31, 1861, Maryville, Mo. 

1424 Lorenz, Geo., P. Co. B, 25th ;e. June 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1425 Loudon, Lafayette, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich., ad. same. 

1426 Louk, Emory G., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Avon, 111.; ad. 

Quenemo, Osage Co , Kas. 

1427 Louth, Wm., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13,' 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. Morenci, 

Mich. Died June 17, 1889. 

1428 Louther, James B., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

1429 Loveland, Wm. H., P Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Prairie City, 

111.; vet. Jan. 21, 1864; ad. Ellisville. 111. 

1430 Low, David, P. Co. E, Eug.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1431 Lowe, Wm., P. Co. D. Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861; deserted. 

1432 Lubernickle, John, P. Cos. Land I; e. . 

1433 Ludlow, John, Sergt. Cos, A and E, Eng.; e. June 26, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

ad. 1709 O'Fallon St , St. Lcmis, Mo. 

1434 Ludlow, Wm., P. Cos. A and E, Eng ; e. June 26, 1861, St. Louis; Mo. 

1435 Ludwig, Fredk., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Jo.seph, IMo. 

1436 Luce, Alf.. P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1437 Lucas, Geo. W., P. Cos. C and H; e. xiug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; deserted, 

Aug. 1863, suppo.sed to the enemy. 

1438 Lucas, Jas. AV., P. Co. H, 25th; e.' . 

1439 LUCAS. STEPHEN T.. Lt and C:ipt. Cos. H, 25th. M and E, Eng.; 

e. July 26, 1861; Forrest City, Mo.; has been sheriff of Holt Co., Mo.; ad. 
Forrest City, Mo. 



210 THE FIKST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1440 Lutz, Anthony, P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, Paris, 111.; pen- 

sioned. 

1441 LYLE, WM. K., Lt. Cos. B, 25tb, L and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 9, 1861, St Joseph, 

Ml). History — He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, February 
6, 1833, a grandson of lion. xVaron Lyle, a soldier in the Revolutionary 
War and representative in Congress. In 1861 Lieutenant Lyle was a 
miner in Colorado, near Pike's Peak, where, upon the news of the tiring 
on Fort Sumter every man took sides either for or against the Union. A 
secret organization was formed l)y the Union miners, in the fall of 18(31. As 
the news from the States showed the need of more men from the North, 
he arranged to leave for the seat of war November 1, 1861, going toward 
Pennsylvania, but at Omaha, instead of going home first, eulislid under 
Lieutenant Bradshaw in tlie Twenty-tifth Mis.souri, Company A; was 
appointed Orderly Sergeant Company A, July 1, 1862; Second Lieutenant 
Company B, July 2, 1863; transferred to First j\lissouii En^ii eers and 
promoted to First Lieutenant Company L, December 31, 1863; tiansftrrtd 
to Company E Consolidated Battalion First JMissouri Engineers, October 31, 
1864; promoted Captain, IJompany B Engineers, June 12, 1865; at dress 
parade, July 8, 1863. New Madrid, Missouri, he was presented by Sergeant 
Siiuinoads, on behalf of his comrades in Company A Twenty Fifth, with a 
tine sword and belt in a neat speech by the Sergeant, setting forth the consid- 
eration in which he was held by his comrades. Shortly after the consolida- 
tion with the Engineer Regiment he whs detailed (Quartermaster of the 
Second Battalion, and at Nashville in August, 1864, Regimental Quarter- 
master. After the capture of Atlanta, he was detailed by order of Major- 
General Howard as Assistant Quartermaster, Enginens' Depajtment 
of the Tennessee under Colonel C. B. Reese, Chief Engineer, and "was 
ordered to return to Nashville, Tenn., and procure ne"w material for 
a ponton train and engineer supplies, retninmi; to Allai la on tie la^t train 
before the road was destroyed for the " March to the Sea." From Raleigh, 
North Carolina, he was sent under orders from General Howard to bring 
up reserve Headquarters, rejoining the Aimy at Alexandria rear Washington, 
District Columbia. lie is a prosperous and well-to-do merchant in the hard- 
ware business. South Burgettstowm, Washington County, Pennsylvania. 

1442 Lynch. Thos., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24, 1861, Kan.sas City, Mo. 

1443 Lynch, John, P. Co. K, 25th; e. Aug. 16, 1861. Kansas City, Mo. 

1444 Lytle, Gardner, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

1445 LOOS, FRED. Lt. Co. B, Van Horn's Battalion; e. . 

1146 Ending, Fred, P. Co. B 25th and L, Ens.; e. . St. Joseph, Mo. 

1447 Luallen, Zeel, P. Co. K, 25th; e. ." 

1448 Madden, Pat., Sergt. Cos. G, 25th and L, Eng.; e. Dec, 1, 1861, Kansas City, 

Mo. 

1449 Madden. Samuel G., P. Cos. G, 25th, L and B, Ene; e. May 31, 1863. 

1450 Mack, jNIartin, P. Co. I, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; died, Oter- 

ville. Mo.; Dec. 1861. 

1451 Mack, Robt., P. Cos. A and E, Ene.; e, Julv 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1452 Macklin, Patrick, P. Co. H, Eng ; e. Oct. 8, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.: disch. dis. 

Aug. 1863; m\. 2201 Madison av., St. Louis. Uo. 

1453 McLOON. H ENKY P., Lt. Co. K, 25th ; e. March 25. 1862, St, Joseph, Mo. ; res. 

Sept. 17. 1862. 

1454 McAlpin, Henry B., P. Cos. K, 25th and G, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1862, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa; ad. same. 

1455 McBee, (has. P., Co. C, Eng,; e. Nov. 24, 1863. 

1456 McBeth, Jas. B., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Julv 22, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1457 McBride, Jacob G., P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1861, Cassville, Wis.; 

dead. 

1458 TMcBride, Jolin. P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1861, Camden, 111.; disch. dis. 

Feb 12, 1863, Memphis, Tenn. 

1459 McBrien, John. P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1460 McBride. Wm.. P. Cos. B and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Paris, III.; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Sullivan, Ind. 

1461 McBrier, James IL, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Oct. 4. 1862. 

1462 McBryer. John F., P. Co. K. 25th; e. Sept. 23. 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

1463 McCabe, Peter, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 117 

1464 McCabe, Thomas, P. Co. G, 25lh; e. June 25, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1465 McCune, William D., P. Co. A, 25lli; June 17, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1466 McCaudless, John, P. Cos. K and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 25, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

1467 McCarthy, Dennis, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1468 McCartney, Benjamin E., P. Cos. F, 25tii, H and D, Eng.; e. Dec. 80, 1861; 

Stewartsville, Mo. 

1469 Mc(;arty, Dan , P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1470 McCarty, Dan,, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1471 Mccarty, EDWARD, Lt. Co. G, 25th: e July 3, 1862; not accounted for; 

ad. ij'dO Charlotte st., Kansas City, Mo. 

1472 McCarty, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 15. 1863, Troy, Kas 

1473 McClary, Ralph B., Hosp. Stewd. and Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie 

City, 111; is a practising physician at Monmouth, 111. ; draws a pension. 

1474 McCash, Wm. F., Cor. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 25th, 1861, Burlington, lown; 

ad. same. 

1475 McClelland, Jas. A., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 29, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1476 McClelland, Wade C, P. Co I, 25th; e. Aug. 10, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1477 McClellan, John, P. Co. A, 25th; e. , 1862, Kansas City, Mo. ; deserted. 

1478 McGlure, James, Sergt. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; died 

in St. Louis, 1872. 

1479 McClure, Joseph, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e, Aug. 16, 1862, Bloomfield, 111.; 

ad. Vermillion, 111 

1480 McCormack, Dan., P." Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 18, 1862, Kansas 

City, Mo. 

1481 McCraven, Francis, Cor. Cos. D ard C, Ene.; e. Aug. 2, 1861, Keokuk, Iowa. 

1482 McCuilum, Amos, P Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 21, 1861, Decatur, 111.; deserted. 

1483 McCurry, John, P. Co. II, 25th; e. Aug. 14. 1861, Nodaway Co.. Mo. 

1484 McDade, John, Sergt. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Galena, 111.; disch. dis. 

date not known. 

1485 McDaniel, Siimuel F.. Cor. Cos. B and K. Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1486 McDonald, Alex, P. Co. D, Eng. ; e. Aug. 16, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; deserted 

March 5, 1862, St. Louis, Mo. 

1487 McDonald. Edward, Sergt. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. Nov. 14, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; has a pensi ai, is captain police second district, corner of Carr and 7th 
St.; ad. 1437 Wright st ; St. Louis, Mo. 

1488 McDonald, Jaraes,"P. Co. A. 25th; e. July 9, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1489 McDonald, Jasper, P. Cos A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1490 McDonald, John, P. Co E, Eno- ; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. same. 

1491 McDonald, Wm., P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. August 5, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1492 McElroy, Jas , P. Co. D, S5th; e. July 30, 1801, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1493 McEwen, Leander. Cor. Co. D, Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1861, St. Louis. Mo.; died 

Dec. 28, 1863, Cairo, 111. 

1494 McFadden, Robert. Cor. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1495 McFarland, Wm., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C. Eng.; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Taylor 

Co., Iowa. 

1496 McGarrell, Wm.,P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. ;ad. San Bernardino, Cal.; pensioner. 

1497 McGarvan, Wm., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. Jan. 12, 1864. 

1498 McGarvin, Dennis, P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, Gallatin, ■Mo. 

1499 McGrath. Roger, P. Cos. A and E, Eng,; e. July 20, 1861, East St. Louis, III. 

1500 McGirr, David, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20. 1861, St, Louis, Mo. 

1501 McGlashen, John. P. Co. D, Eng.; e.^August 16, 1862, St. Louis. Mo.; dead. 

1502 McGlancy, Jas , P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 19, 1861, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa. 

1503 McGorry, Benedict. P. Co. F, Eng.;e. Oct. 1, 1861, Decatur, 111.; is a Police 

Magistrate in Decatur, 111. 

1504 McGoffin, Marcus, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

1505 JMcGovern, Pat., P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 3, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1506 McGowan, Wm., P Co. A, 25th; e. Aue. 10, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1507 McGrail, John, Mus., Cos. A and E. Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1508 McGuire, Christopher M., Sergt. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. PVb. 17, 

1862. Sidney, Iowa; he is Sheriff (1888) of Phillips Co. Kas.^ ad. Philips- 
burg, Kivs. 

1509 McHale, William, P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 



218 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1510 Mcintosh, Jesse, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Dec. 20, 1861. 

1511 Mclntyre, John I)., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Manchester, Iowa. 

1512 Mcivor, Dan, P. Cos. F and B, Eng ; e. June 13, 1862, St. Louis, Mo.; he 

became blind in Gen. Hos., about 1864. 

1513 IMcKain, Notley, P. Cos. D, F and A, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111.; 

vet.; ad. Dunbar, Ohio. 

1514 IMcKechner, John, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis. Mo. 

1515 Mclvee, Benj. F., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Dec. 20, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

1516 McKee, Lawrence, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1517 McKenna, John, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20. 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1518 McKenna, Pat., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 26, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1519 JMcKenna, Peter, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24, 1861, Kansas, City, Mo. 

1520 McKinlay, John A., P. Co.«. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 16, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. Grant City, Mo. 

1521 McKinnis, Hiram, Sergt. Co. I, 25th; e. July 6, 1861, Cameron, Mo. 

1522 McKnight, William, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, Clinton, Mo. 

1523 McLain, , P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1524 McLane, .Joseph, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Paris, 111. 

1525 McLaren, JOHN, Lt. Cos. F, A and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 28, 1861, Dubuque, 

Iowa, disch. Dec. 20, 1864. He is a prosperous and wealthy wholesale lum- 
ber merchant at No. 2 Franklin St., Chicago, 111.; ad. 339 S. Ashland av., 
Chicago, 111. 

1526 McLaughlin, Fred. W., P. Co. H, 25th; e Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1527 McLELLAN, JOHiN, Lt. Co. A. 25th; e. May 16, 1862, cashiered Oct. 31, 1862. 

1528 McLure, John, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 16, 1862, Bloomtield, 111. 

1529 McMahon, Mich., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 26, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1530 McMeans, David, P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1531 McMeneman, Jas., P. Co. G, 2r)th; e. Aug. 1, 18 .1, Kansas City, Mo. 

1532 McMichael, Robt., P. Co. H. 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1533 McMillian, Geo., P. Co. C, 25th; e. Julv 12, 1861, Gentry Co., Mo. 

1534 McMillian, Levi, P. Cos. H, D and C, Ene.;e. Aug. 30, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1535 McNair, R., P. Co. E, Ens;.: e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; died nearOtter- 

ville. Mo., Oct., 1861. 

1536 McNally, Richard, P Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 12, 1881, McGregor, Iowa; 

ad. Wagner, Iowa. 

1537 McNamara, Hugh, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng. ; e. Dec. 31, 1861, Rush- 

ville. Mo.; ve^t. .Jan. 20, 1864. 

1538 McNeil, Elias, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; ad. 

same. 

1539 McSperr in, Perry, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng. ; e. Dec. 16, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. Wathena Kas. 

1540 McSweeney, Terrence, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1541 McWaid, Samuel G., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 21, 1861, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

1542 Magan, Charles W., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e Sept. 20, 1862, 

Nodaway Co , Mo. 

1543 Magan, John W., P. Cq. H, 25th; e. Sept. 20, 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo.; ad. 

St. Loins, Mo. 

1544 Mag2-, Phil., P. Co. B, 25th, e. June 13, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1545 Mainey, John, P Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1546 ]\Iallett, Adam, P. Co. B, 25th, e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1547 Mallin, John, Cor. Cos. H, D, E and C, Eng ; e. . 

1548 Malinsky, Louis! P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20. 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1549 Mallory", Thomas, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1550 Maloon, .James, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24. 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1551 Malony, Richard A., Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng.;e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

Ill.;'ad. jMadison, Neb. 

1552 Malony, Richard, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Feb. 22, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1553 Manly Harrison, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Mar. 25, 1868, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1554 ManlV, Riley, P. Co. II, 25th: e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1555 Mann. Fred, P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. T^ouis, Mo.; was 

badly injured in right arm in an accident near Johnsonville, Tenn., June 
22, 1864. 

1556 Mansfield, Edward, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 



THE EOSTEE. , 219 

1557 Manuel Lorenzo, P. Co. D, Eug ; e. Oct. 15, 1861, Camden, 111.; died 

March 3, 1868; Gen. Hos., Memphis, Tenu. 

1558 Maples, Richard, P. Cos. 1), 25th, A and B, Eng. ; e. Mar. 1, 1863, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. Easton, Mo. 

1559 Marcy, Stephen, P. Co. E, Eug.; e. July IB, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; is a 

pensioner; ad. 2122 Cummings St., Omaha, Neb. 

1560 Markel, Jacob, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1561 Markwell, John, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 4, 1861, ; ad. Maryville, Mo. 

1563 Marshall, John, Sergt. Cos. F, 25th, H and D. Eng.; e. Jan. 1, 1862, St*. 

Catharines, Mo.; ad. North Saleni, Mo. 

1563 Martens, Henry, P. Co. G, Eng.;e. Sept. 13, 1801, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

disch. Oct. 1863, for injury, crushing boih legs and ankles at Pocahontas, 
Tenn., in Sept. 1863; injured while unloading heavy bridge timbers from 
railroad cars; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1564 Martin, Almarine, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, New London, Iowa; ad. 

Kirwin, Kas. 

1565 Martin, Dennis, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1566 Martin, John, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. OctTl, 1861,'Bloomington, 111.; died Apr., 

1862, New ]\Iadrid, Mo. 

1567 Martin, Jonathan J., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Jan. 2, 1862. 

1568 Martin, Jo.seph A.. Sergt. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. 

Louis, Mo. 

1569 Martin, Silas, P. Cos. A and E, Eng ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1570 Marvin, J. J.,' Cor. Co. E, 35th; e. Jan. 3, 1802, Sonora, Mo.; ad. Falls 

City, Neb. 

1571 Marx, Jacob, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. ; e. . 

1573 Mason, Geo., P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 15, 1861. 

1573 Mather, Peter, P. Co. B. 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1574 Mathews, Ezekiel, P. Co. D. 25th; e. July 17. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1575 Mathews, Chas. D., P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 23, 1861, Brown Co., Kas. 

1576 Mathews, Geo. W., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; dead. 

1577 Mathews, Jas., P. Co. G, Ensr.; e. Oct. 17, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1578 Mathews, Jas. S., P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 23, 1861. Brown Co., Kas. 

1579 Mathingly, .John, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo. 

1580 MATTIS, SILAS W., Lt. Cos. K and F, Eng.; e. Sept., 1861, Burlington, 

Iowa.; died insane, at Nashville Tenn. 

1581 Maurer, Geo., P. Co. B, 35th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1583 Mavity, Jas. F., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e Feb. 16, 1863, Sidney, 
Iowa. 

1583 Mayenberg, John, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

1584 Maj-er, Gt^o., P. Co. A, 35th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1585 Mays, James L., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Dec. 31, 1861, St. Cath- 

arines, Mo.; ad. Brookland, Ark. 

1586 Maxwell, Jas, K., P. Co. H, 35th ;e. . 

1587 Meachara, Ahira, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct 1, 1861, Rushvllle, 111.; disch. dis. 

Oct. 33, 1863, has pension; ad. Leon, Kas. 

1588 Meacham, Arlin, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 36, 1861, Rushvllle, 111.; disch. dis. 

March 19, 1863, Otterville Mo. 

1589 Meek, .lohn, P. Cos. D and F. Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861. Flora, 111. 

1590 Mehoflfy, Geo. W., P. Co C, 35th; e. .July 37, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1591 Mehring, Fred, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

dead. 
1593 Meier, August, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1593 Meier, Fred, P. Co. G, Eng.; e Sept. 13, 1861. Cape Girardeau. Mo. 

1594 Meisel, Henry, P. Co. B, 35th; e. June, 13, 1861, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1595 Mellville, M. C, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 15, 1861, St. Joseph, jMo. 

1596 Mengoz, P]ugene, Mua. Co. F, Eng.; e. Aug. 28, 1861, Gilbertville, Iowa; 

disch. dis. July, 1863, Jackson, Tenn. 

1597 Mengoz, Francois, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Gilbertsville. Iowa. 

1598 Meredith, Mathias, P. Co. D, 35th; e. Feb. 30, 1863, St. Joseph. Mo. 

1599 Merrick, RufusP., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; is pen- 

sioned; ad. Charlotte, Mich. 



220 THE FIRST MISSOUKI ENGINEKES, 

1600 MERRITT, A. J., Oapt. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1861, Des Moines, Iowa; 

discli. Jau. 1, 1864; is a civil engineer and railroad contractor in good cir- 
cumstances at 556 Dralie Block, St. Paul. i\Iiun. 

1601 Merritt, Ancil L., P. Co. D, 35th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1602 Merritt, Franklin, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Nov. 27, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1603 Merritt, Lewi.^ P. C... D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1604 Merritt, Robert W., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo 

1605 Metcalfe, Francis M., P. Cos. F, 25lh, H and D, Eng. ; e. Dec. 31, 1861, Koch- 

ester, Mo. 

1606 Merwin, Oscar, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 19, 1861, Bloomingtou, 111 ; deserted. 

1607 Meyer, Christian, P. Co. E, 25th; e. March 17, 18e2, Atchison Co.. Mo. 

1608 Meyer, Frank, P. Cos. B, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1609 Meyer, Henry, P. Cos. G and I. Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

is a pensioner; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1610 Meyer, John E., Sergt. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1611 Meyforth, Frederick. P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. 

1612 Michael, Shadrack, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 1, 1862, St. Jo- 

seph, Mo 

1613 Michael, Zachariah, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Jan. 28, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

1614 Middleton, Robert D., Sergt. Cos. K and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, New 

London, Iowa; is a farmer in comfortable circumstances near Sedalia, Mo. 

1615 Miles, Jesse R , P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1616 Miles, John, P. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1862, Augusta, Iowa; ad. White 

Cloud, Kas. 

1617 MILES, ALEX C, Lt. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861; res. Sept. 3, 1863. 

1618 Miller, Andrew J., P. Co. A, Eng ; e. . 

1619 Miller, August, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 11, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1620 Miller, Charles, Ist, P. Co. B, 25th; e. Mar. 1, 1862, St. Jo.seph. Mo. 
1631 Miller, Charles, 3d, P. Co. B. 35th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1633 Miller, F., P. Co. H, Eng.; e. . 

1623 Miller, George W., Sergt. Cos A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, 
Mo. 

1634 Miller, George W., P. Co. I, 35th; e. Aug. 13, 1861, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

1625 Miller, John. P. Cos. H and D, Eng ; e. Oct. 18; 1861, Vermillion, 111. 

1626 MILLER, JOHN H., Lt. Co. G, 25th; e. July 17, 1861, Wyandotte, Kas.; 

res Mar. 14, 1863. 

1627 Miller, John, P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1638 Miller, Peter, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1639 Miller, Peter, P. Co. B, 35th; e. June'l3, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1630 Miller, Robert A., P. Cos. K, 35th, G and C, Eng.;e. Nov. 13, 1863, Clarinda, 

Iowa; ad. same. 

1631 MILLAR AVM., Capt. Co. G, 35th; e. Jan. 31, 1861, Kansas City, Mo.; 

disch. Jan. 1, 1864. 
1633 Miller, Wm., P, Co. B, 35th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1633 Millican, Clark B., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Rushville, 111.; 

ad. St. Louis, Mo. 

1634 Mills, Thomas, Sergt. Cos. D, 35th, A and B, Eng.; e. March 1, 1863. 

1635 MILLS. .ILEX. H., Lt. Co. E, 35th; e. July 32, 1861, Oregon, Mo.; res. Sept. 

3, 1862; ad White Cloud, Kas. 

1636 Marlatt, Wellington. P. Co. E, Eng ; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; a 

pensioner; ad. Hoskins, Dak. 

1637 Mathews, Hiram T., P Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Toolsbojo, 

Iowa; ad. same. 

1638 Mathews, Homer O., P. Cos. I and C:, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Toolsboro, 

Iowa;draws a pension; ad. Toolsboro, Iowa. 

1639 Millsap, Riley, P. Co. C, 25th; e. . 

1640 Milton. Wm., P. Cos. , 35th and C, Eng.; e. June 13, 1863. 

1641 Miner, Jas. F.. Sergt. Co. F, Eag.; e. Auir. 38, 1861, Dubuque Iowa. 
1643 Minhous, Herman, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng.; e. . 

1643 Misner, Wm., P. Cos. K, D and C Eng.;e. Sept. 25, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

1644 Mitchell, John, P. Co. A, 35th; e. June 14. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1645 Mitchell, John, P. Co. G, 35th; e. June 37, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 



THE kosti:e. 221 

1646 Mitchell, Winfield S., P. Co. F. 25ih; e. Aug. 18, 1861, Oregon. Mo. 

1647 Moberly, James, Cor. Cos. — , 25th, — and tj, Eiig.; e. Sept. 3, 1862. 

1648 Montgomery, David, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Carlyle. 111.; disch. 

for rheumatism, Jackson, Tenn., Oct. 23, 1862. 

1649 Montgomery, John F., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 17, 1861, New London, Iowa. 

1650 Montgomery, Samuel, P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1651 Montgomery, Stephen, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 17, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1652 Moody, Albert J., P. Cos. L and I., Eng.; e. ; ad. Shenendoah, Iowa. 

1653 Moon, Enos. P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 12, 1861. 

1654 Moon, Albert S., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa, 

1655 Moore, Dan. M., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; is a 

pensioner; ad. Fairbury, Neb. 

1656 Monfert, — , P. Co. — , Eng.; e. ; ad. Burlington, Iowa. 

Moore, Henrv, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Aug. 25, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

Moore, Isaac," P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 19, 1862, Brecken- 

ridge, Mo. 

1659 Moore, James R., P. Cos. H, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 22, 1862, Nod- 

away Co., Mo. 

1660 Moore, Jas., 1st, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. March 30, 1863, Breck- 

enridge, IVIo. 

1661 Moore, James, 2d. P. Co. F, 25th; e. March 27, 1862, St. Jo.seph, Mo. 

1662 Moore, John. Cor. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1863, Sandford. Ind. 

1663 Moore, John N., P. Cos. , 25th, — and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 5, 1861. 

1664 Moore, John, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eug.;e. Dec. 20, 1863, Breckenridge, 

Mo. 

1665 Moore, Philip H., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Bushnell, 111.; 

disch. dis. May 19, 1864, Memphis, Tenn.; ad. Sunbury, Pa. 

1666 Moore, Peter, P. Cos. C and B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Bushnell, 111. 

1667 Moore, Wm., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 8, 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1668 Moore, Wm. S., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1669 Moran, Jas.. P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, West Point, Iowa. 

1670 Morehcad, Hugh, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 15, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1671 Morrell, Elbridge (Alias Wild Cat), P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 3, 1861, 

Rushville, 111.; ad. Bardolph, 111.; pensioner. 

1672 Morgan, David, Sergt. Cos. K, 25th, and G, Eng.; e. Dec. 1, 1861, Hawley 
ville, Iowa; ad. same; draws a pension. 

Morgan. Jas., P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Camp Point, 111. 
Morgan, John, P. Co. K, 25th; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

1675 ]\Iorgan, Morgan, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1676 Morgan, Stephen G., P. Co. K, 25th; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

1677 Morris, Jas. H., P. Co D, 25th; e. July 16, 1861, St. Josenh, Mo. 
I\Iosely, Sam., P Co. K, 25th; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Hawleyville, Iowa. 
Morrison. Chas. W., Sergr. Cos. K, D and C, Eng.; e. March 11, 1862, St. 

Louis, Mo. ; ad. Omaha, Neb. 

1680 Morrison, Chas. W., Sergt. Co. D, Eng.; e. August 15, 1861, Olney, 111.; died 

at Vicksburg, Mifs , Jiine 24, 1862. 

1681 Morrison. Sanford W., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, 111.; 

is pensioned; ad. Newton. 111. 

1682 Morris, John J., Cor. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo.; ad. 

Falls City, Neb. 

1683 Morton, Chas., P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 29, 1861 , Gallatin, Mo. 

1684 Morton. John N . P. Co. I, 25th; e. .tune 7, 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

168B MORTON, JOHN P., Capt. Cos. E. 25th, G and C, Entr.; e. Jan. 2, 1862, 
White Cloud, Kas.; was promoted to 2(1 Lt. Co. E, 25th, Dec. 8, 1863; 
1st Lt. Co. G, Eng., Dec. 31, 1863; Capt. Co. C, Eng., Jan. 12, 1865; ad 
Prescott, Kas. 

1686 MORTON, MARCUS, Lt. Co. I, 25th; e. July 29, 1861, Gallatin, Mo.; 

disch. Jan. 1. 1864; ad. Hamilton. Mo. 

1687 MORTON, WM. A., Lt. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. July 7, 1861. 

Cameron, Mo.; disch. Feb. 28, 1865.; ad. Kingston, Mo. 

1688 Mosher, G. W., P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 26, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

1689 Mouiss Robert, P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau. Mo. 

1690 Mulholland, Abner, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 



222 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1691 Mulkev, Jos. F., P. Co. U, 25th; e. Jan. 18, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1692 Mullett, John, P. Cos. G, 25ih, L and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 24, 1862, Kansas City, 

Mo. 

1693 Mnllin, \Vm. N , P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 4, 1861, Shell Rock, Iowa;disch. 

Jackson, Tenn., Oct., 1862. 

1694 Mulvuhill, .Mich., Sergt, Co. G. 25th; e. June 18, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1695 Mund, Louis, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1696 Munch, Mux, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1«61, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1697 Hunger, Kicliaid L., Sergt. Cos. F, 25ih, II and 1), Eng.; e. Aug. 21, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. Empire Prairie, Mo. 

1698 Munger, Cyrus, Cor. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Empire Prairie, Mo. 

1699 Mungovan, Jas., P Co. G, 25th; e. June" 17, 1861, Kansas Citv, Mo. 

1700 Munroe, Jas., P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1701 Muuson, Dan., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 18, 1861, Oreaou,Mo. 

1702 Murphv. Denni.s, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 26, 1861, Kansas City, 3Io. 

1703 Murphy, Chas., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 18, 1861, EU)ridge, 111. 

1704 MURPHY. JOHN E., Capt. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; 

disch. Oct. 31, 1864; is in business as a blacksmith at Paris, 111. 

1705 MURPHY, JOHN, Lt. Cos. G, 25th and L, Eng.; e. July 20, 1868, Kansas 

City, ]\[o.; disch. Oct. 31, 1864. 

1706 Murphy, John, P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Bloomington, 111. 

1707 Murphy, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 30, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1708 Murray, Henry, P, Co. I, 25th ; e. Jan. 2, 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

1709 Mutschler, Gottlieb, P. Cos. E and A, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; 

has a pension; is a farmer in good circumstances near Clayton, Mich. 

1710 Myers, AddLson, P. Cos. II and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 25, 1862, Vermillion, 111. 

1711 MARUASON. JOSEPH, Lt. Co. I, 5th and 35th, and L, Eng.: e. Aug. 15, 

1862; promoted Capt. Co. D, 35th Mo., Sept. 80, 1862. 

1712 Nairn, Jas., P. Cos. A and E, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861,Booneville, Ind. 

1713 JSTaile, Geo. L., P. Cos. H, D aud^C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Graudview, 111.; 

ad. Grandview, 111. 

1714 Naile, \Vm. H., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug, 12, 1862, Grandview, 111.; 

pensioner ; ad. Decatur, 111. 

1715 Nash, Wm. J., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1716 Naylor, Jas., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e July 28, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1717 Naylor, John W., Sergt. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1718 Neff, Peter, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. June 8, 1863, Nodaway Co. 

Mo.; ad. Savannah, Mo. 

1719 Nelson, Geo. W., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E,Eng.; e. March 25, 1863, Noda- 

wav Co., Mo. 

1720 Neviis, Pat., P. Co. G., 25th ; e. June 21, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1721 NeLson, H. H., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Jan. 3, 1863, Andrew Co., 

Mo.; ad Maryville, Mo. 

1722 NEAL, WM. A., Asst. Sur. Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1861, New London, Iowa; 

was Hospital Steward from Oct. 15, 1861, to Feb. 4, 1864; Asst. Sur. from 
Feb. 6, 1864, to muster out of the Regiment July 28, 1865; is now engaged 
in the practice of medicine and surgery at No. 431 INIain st., Elkhart, 
Ind.; is the author and compiler of this History. 
1733 NEWBERRY, OLIVER P., Capt. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 1862, Cameron, Mo.; 
was disch. and promoted Maj. of 5th Cavalr}% Mo., March 28, 1863. 

1724 NEWHARD, JAMES M., Lt. Cos. E. 25th, G and C, Eng., e. July 22, 1861, 

White Cloud, Kas. He was Orderly Sergt. of Co. E, 25th, and at the consol- 
idation was made 2d Lt. in Co. H, Eng.; May 12, 1865, promoted 1st 
Lt. Co. C; was detailed as Ileg'l Adj. about Oct., 1864, and served as 
such the most of the time until muster out. Since the war he has lived in 
Maryville, Mo., and is now in very poor health from the effects of the rail- 
road accident near Johnsonville, Tenn., June 22, 1864, where he was badly 
hurt; is living at No. 1258 Cynress Street, Oakland, Cal. 

1725 Newman, Peter, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 22, 1861, McGregor, Iowa. 

1726 Newton, Calvin, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 22, 1861, McGregor, Iowa. 

1727 Nicol, Geo.. P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 23, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1728 Nicholas, Wm. N., P. Cos. D, F and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 8, 1861, Flora, 111.; 

draws a pension; ad. West Liberty, 111. 



THE KOSTKK. '223 

1729 MCHOLS, FRKI) C. Capt. Co. A, 35ih, Maj. Eng.; e. May 10, 1801; disch. 

Oct. ;U, 1804; is or was iu the Regular Army, J.t. 1st Art. 

1730 NICHOLSON, SAM I.. T., (Japt. Co. E, Eng.; e. July i;], 1861, AdriMU, Mich.; 

res. Dee. :;, 1801; is in business at Adrian, Midi. 

1731 Noah, Uriah, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Gallatin, Mo 

1732 Nobles, Judson K., P. Cos. II, D and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 25, 1863, Pocahontas, 

Tenn. 

1733 Nobles, Hezakiah G., P. Cos. II, D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1863, Pocahontas 

Tenn. 

1734 Nobly, Jas C, Cor. Co. K. 25th; e. Sept. 23, 1802. 

1735 NOEL, CHAS. VV., Ll. Co. K, 25ih; e. Oct. 6, 1862; commissioned; vacated 

March 5, 18(J3. 

1736 Noland, Jas., P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 23, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1737 Noland, Wesley, P. Co. A, 25th; e July 9, 1861, b>t. Jo.seph, jMo. 

1738 Noelle, John, P Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau Mo 

1739 Noll, John, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

1740 NORRIS, WM. H. P., Lt. Co. I), 25th; e. July 26, 1861, Ottunnva, Iowa- res 

Sept. 7, 1863. 

1741 Norton, Andrew J., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1861, Monticello, Iowa 

1742 Norton, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 9, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1743 NortonOliver B., P. Cos. Hand D, 'Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1862, Tuscola, 111.; 

ad. Decatur, III. 

1744 Norton, Samuel, P. Co. H, Eng.; e. Oct. 12, 1861, Paris, 111.; d. ad. 

1745 Nuaau, Jas., P. Co. C, Eng. ; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Lafayette, Ind.; deserted. 

1746 O'Brien, Thos., Cor. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, 'Dubuque, Iowa. 

1747 O'Brien, Dennis, Sergt. Co. G, 25th; e. June 22, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1748 O'Connell, Peter I).. P. Cos A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis Mo 

1749 ODENBAUCiH. LISBON, Capt. Co. H, Eng.; e. Oct."l, 1861, Paris, 111.; disch 

dis. May 1, 1864; dead. 

1750 Odin, Isaac N., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1751 Odle, Henry; P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861. jMcGregor, Iowa. 

1752 Oehl Fred., P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo, ; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Arensburg, Mo. 

1753 O'Flaherty, Corneil, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1861, Dubuque, 

Iowa. 

1754 O'Flaherty, Dan.. Cor. Co. G, 25th; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1755 O'Flaherty, Owen, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1756 Ogden, Alf., P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Sept. 25, 1861; New London, Iowa; dead 

1757 Ogden, John, P. Co. E, 25th, e. July 25, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

1758 Ogden, Joseph, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 4, 1861, St. Joseph 

Mo.; ad. Forrest City, Mo. 

1759 Ogden, Martin, P. Co. C. 25th; e. July 4, 1861, Rushville, Mo. 

1760 Ogden, Wm, T., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Aug. 22, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

1761 Ogle, Elisha B , P. Cos. F, 25th, H. and D,Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1862, Stewarts- 

ville, Mo.; ad. Maryville, ]\Io. 

1762 O'Hara, Corneil, Sergt. Co. G, 25th; e. Jan. 13, 1861. Kansas City, Mo. 

1763 O'Hara. John, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 12, 1801, Kansas City, Mo. 

1764 Ohler, Nicholas, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13. 1861, St. Joseph Mo 

1765 Ohiham, Wm.. P. Co. I, 25th. e. Oct. 0, 1802, Gallatin, ]\Io. 

1766 Omer, John W., P. Cos. K, 25th, C and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 20. 1862, Mt. Ayer, 

Iowa; ad. Tabor. Iowa. 

1767 O'NEIL. DAVID, Lt. Co. B, Van Horn's, Battalion; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas 

City, Mo.; not officially accounted for. 

1768 O'Neil, Dennis. P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 21. 1861, De Kalb Co.. Mo. 

1769 O'Neil, John, P. Co. D, Eng,; e. Sept. 9, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. dis. Mar. 

6, 1802, Otterville, Mo. 

1770 Onstott, Beni., P Co C, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, St. Joseph. :\ro. 

1771 Onstott, Henry, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

1772 O'Reiley, Pat., Sergt. Co. G, 25tli; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1773 Orton, Wm. D., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa. 

1774 Osborn, David, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1775 Ostrander, Alf. B., Sergt. Cos. A and £, Eng.; e. 'July 1, 1861, St. 

Louis, Mo. 



22J: THE FIRST MISSOUKI ENGINEERS. 

1776 Ostramler, Geo. W., 1st, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; 

ad. Ottawa Lake, Mich. 

1777 Ostraiider, Geo. VV., 3d, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; 

ad. Elyria, Ohio 

1778 O'Sullivau, Jas., P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Jan. 1, 1862. 

1778 Overholdt, G., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1779 Overmill, Wm., P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1780 Overton, Isaac, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, IJurlington, Iowa. 

1781 Owens, John, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e; June 14, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

1782 Owens, Squire T., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Paris; 111. 

1783 PACE, L. C, Chap., 25th; e. Aug. 12, 1862, res. Nov. 1, 1862. 

1784 Pace, Edward, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Pane Co., Iowa. 

1785 Page, Carey, P. Cos. C and B, Eug.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

ad. Clyde Kas.; pensioner. 

1786 Page, Chas. H., Cor. Co. H, 25th; e. Nov 7, 1861, Amity, Iowa. 

1787 Page, Isaac T., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, Iowa; 

ad. Perry, Iowa. 

1788 Palmer, Jac, P. Cos. L and I. Eng. 

1789 Palmer, Mathew H., P. Co. F. Eng ; e. Oct. 11, 1861. Albert Lea, Minn.; 

has a pension : disch. dis. Feb. 1»62, at Otlerville, Mo., ad. Mantorville, 
Dodge Co., Minn 

1790 Palmer, Solon, P. Co. B, 25t,h; e. Aus 1, 1861, Linueus, Mo. 

1791 Palmer, Wm. O., P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1792 Pangburn, Chas., P. Cos. F, K and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1861, Cassville, Wis.; 

is pensioned; ail. Charlotte, ]\Iicli. 

1793 PARKER, DANIEL li., Lt Cos. F, B and G, Eng.; e. Nov. 1, 1861, 

Albert Lea, 31iiin.; is a pensioner, a merchant in good circumstances at 
Albert Lea, Almn. 

1794 Parker, Chas., P. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. Aua-. 16, 1861, Bloomfield, 111. 

1795 Parker, Thos., P. Cos. li, 25tli, M and E, Eug.; e. Sept. 9, 1862, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; ad. llopeville, Iowa. 

1796 Parkhurst, Josiah. P. Cos. C and B, En<r.; e, Aui;-. 4, 1801, Prairie City, 111. 

1797 Parman, Wm., P. Cos. A, 25th, Mand E, Eng; e. Dec. 12, 1861, Fremont, la. 

1798 Parnell, Isaac A., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Dec. 24, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

1799 Parnell, Wm. M., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eug.; e. Dec. 24, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

1800 Passenirer, Chas. E., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Aug. 11, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1801 PATTEN, W. G., Capt. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111.; disch. Oct. 31, 1864; has served his country in the Kansas State 
Legislature since the war; is a prominent and inHuential citizen of Cotton- 
wood Falls, Kas. 

1802 Patten, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. Nov. 4, 1861, Page Co., Iowa. 

1803 Patten, John , P. Co. K, 25th; e. Aug. 2, 1861, Page Co.. Iowa; ad. Lament, 

Mo. 

1804 Patten, Samuel, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Dubuque. Iowa. 

1805 Patch, Henry, Cor. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. IMurch 18, 1862, Liberty, 

Mo. 

1806 Paulin, Nathaniel, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, :\Io. 

1807 Pans, John, P. Co, B, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. JNtarch 1, 1863, Linneus, Mo.; a 

pensioner; ad. St. Louis, Mo. 

1808 Paus, William, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 11, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1809 Payson. Louis B., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1861, Waverly, Iowa; died at 

Gen. Hos. St. Louis, in 1862. 

1810 Paxton Robert J., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Wapello, Iowa. 

1811 Peabody, Everett. Col. 25th; e. Sept. 21, 1861, St. Louis Mo.; killed in battle 

of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. He was born in Massachusetts in 1830, graduated 
at Harvard College in 1850; the same year edited the Literary Rctieio; 
soon after graduating he engaged in the business of civil engiteering in 
the West At the outbreak of the war he was resident engineer of the 
llanihal & St. JosL'pli Railroad having previously been chief engineer of 
the Louisville & Nashville and the Memphis ct Ohio Riilroads. 

1813 Peabody, Abraham, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, INIo. 

1813 Peacock, Jas., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Dec. 25, 1861, Wyandotte, Kas. 



THE KOSTER. 225 

1814 Pearcy, John M., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Dec. 5, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1815 Pearcy, Levi A., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 10, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1816 Pearcy, Zimri, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 10, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1817 Pearruan, Nathan, P. Co, D, 25th; e. Nov. 28, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1818 Percy, John H., Cor. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Bloomiugtou, 111.; 

disch. Jackson, Tenn., Sept., 1862, for dis. 

1819 Percy, Levi, P. Co. A, 25ih; e. July 10, 1861, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

1820 Percy, Roderick, P. Co. F, Eng ; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Bloomington, 111.; disch. 

dis., Otterville, Mo., Feb., 1862. 

1821 Peek, Jas. W., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Dec. 27, 1861, Quitman, Mo. 

1822 Peek, Wilson, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Dec. 27, 1861, Quitman, Mo. 

1823 Pelton, Saral., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1824 Pelton, Wm. A., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Sept. 21, 1861, Atchison Co., Mo. 

1825 Pell, Thos , P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eug. ; e. March 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1826 Pans, Wm., P. Co. A, 25th; e. ; ad. 2835 Penna. av., St. Louis, Mo. 

1827 Penny, Thos. D., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Holt 

Co., Mo. 

1828 Penny, John T., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Waverly, Iowa; disch. 

dis., Feb., 1863, Memphis, Tenn.; dead. 

1829 Penny, Richard, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Holt Co., Mo.; ad. Phelps 

City. Mo. 

1830 Peunick, Jas. M., P. Cos. K, 25th, and M and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 10, 1861, Haw- 

leyville, Iowa; died at Memor}', Iowa. 

1831 Peppelbaum, Henry, P. Cos. G, and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo. 

1832 PENFIELl), 8. M., Lt. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861; killed in the battle of 

Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 

1833 PERKINS, WM., Lt. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., Mo.; res. 

Jan. 23, 1863. 

1834 Permit, Mathew, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Oct. 16, 1862, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

1835 Perry John, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 15, 1861. 

1836 Peters, Valentine, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 21, 1861, Whig Valley, Mo.; 

killed in the Ceutralia massacie in Octol tr, 1865. 

1837 Peters, Peter. P. Co. B, 25ih; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1838 Peterson, Andrew, P. Co. K, Entj.; e. Sept, 18, 1861, Wapello, Iowa. 

1839 Petty, John C, P. Co. K, 25th ;^e. Feb. 18, 1862, Gentry Co., Mo.; ad. Neo- 

dosha, Kas. 

1840 Phelps, John, P Co. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 17, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1841 Pherson, Wm., P. Cos. C and B, Eng,; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

1842 Phillips, Solon, Sergt. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1861, Keokuk, Iowa. 

1843 Phillips, John, P. Cos. K, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Quincy, 

Iowa. 

1844 Phillips, Nathan S., P. Co. F, 25th: e. Sept. 11, 1862, Stewartsville, Mo. 

1845 Pierman Nathan, P. Co. B, Eng , e. Nov. 28, 1861. 

1846 Piper, Jas., Sergt. Cos. A and' E, Eng, ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo., 

is a well respected influential citizen, and late Mayor of the city of his 
residence, Beaver Falls, Pa 

1847 Piper, J W , P. Cos. B and K, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; dead. 

1848 Pitsch, John Peter, P. Co. B, 25th ; e Nov. 1, 1861, Linneus, Mo. 

1849 Plaster, Saml. W., P. Cos. B and K, Ensr.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

1850 Plunkett, Jas., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Ene.; e. Dec. 26.1861. St. Louis Mo 

1851 Plunkett. John, P. Co. A, 25th ; e. Sept. 16, 1862, St. Louis, Mo. 

1852 Points, John A., Q. M. S. Eng.; e. Sept. 2, 1861, Camden, 111 ; draws a pen- 

sion ; ad. Camden, 111. 

1853 Points, John B., P. Cos. I, D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 14, 1861, Camden, 111.; dead 

1854 Pollock, John, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 30, 1861, Lancaster, Wis.; has a pen- 

sion ; ad. Lancaster. Wis. 

1855 Pollock, Jas., P. Co. E, 25th ; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

1856 Poland, Enoch, P. Co. A, 25th ; e. June 15, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1857 Poole, John F., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. March 3, 1863, Tuscola, III.; is 

pensioned ; ad. Tuscola, 111. 

1858 Poore. Geo. W., P. Cos. I, 25th, HandD.Ensr.; e. Feb 26,1862,St.Jrsti h ]\io 

1859 Porter, John W., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 31, 1862, Ncda 

way Co., Mo.; ad. Barnard, Mo. 



226 THB FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1860 Potlstock, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng. ;e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; a pensioner; ad. 1233 De Soto av., St. Louis, Mo. 

1861 POWELL, JAS. E., Maj. 25th; e. March 24, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. ; killed in 

the battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862; was a brave, capable officer, universally 
liked by the officers and men. 

1862 Powell, Gabriel, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. June 1, 1862, Empire 

Prairie, Mo. 

1863 Powell, George, Cook (colored) Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. April 3, 1863, Lake 

Providence, La. 

1864 Powell, George W., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 19, 1861. Gallatin, Mo. 

1865 Powell, Jonathan, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Jan. 1, 1862, Gallatin, Mo. 

1866 Powell, Kaller, P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

1867 Powell, Wm.,P. Cos. B. K and A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; died 

Terre Haute, Ind.,1878. 

1868 Powell, Wm. P. Co. D, 25th; e. Nov. 29, 1861, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

1869 Powell, Wm. C, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 19, 1861, Gallatin Mo. 

1870 Powell.Wm. S., P.Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 14, 1861, Camp Point, HI.; died 

Milliken Bend, Miss.. June 24,1863. 

1871 Power, Pierce M., Cor. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1872 Powers, John G., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111.; disch. dis., 

St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 26, 1861; dead. 

1873 Powers, Mack, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 24, 1861, Mt. Sterling, 111.; disch. dis., 

Memphis, Tenn., April 26, 1863; dead. 

1874 Powers, Lawrence, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1875 Powers, Pat., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1876 PRESCOTT, ALVAH R., Lt. Cos. F and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Mc 

Gregor, 111.; disch. JSov. 2, 1864. He assisted in raising the men 
for Co. F, in 1861; served for a time as a Sergt., and as Commissary 
Sergt. Since the war he has been a prominent and respected citizen and 
for many years Postmaster at Postville, Iowa. 

1877 Priedham, Lawrence, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis,Mo. 

1878 Purcell, John, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1879 Purkett, John, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1880 Purtle, Jas. J., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Cassville, Wis. 

1881 Pyles, Vincent, P. Co. F, 25th; e. June 13, 1862, Troy, Kas. 

1883 Quick, Paul P., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 6, 1861, Cedar Rapids. Iowa. 

1883 Quick, Thomas, P, Co. G, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1884 Quinn, John, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; ad., 

Avon. 111. ; pensioner. 

1885 Quinn, Maurice, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 28. 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1886 Quinn, Neil, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 25, 1862. St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1887 Quist, F. M., P. Co. B, — ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1888 Rabick, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; is pensioned; ad. Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1889 Rackney. L. G.] P. Co. B. Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, HI. 

1890 Raglan, John, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. June 27, 1862, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

1891 Rainer, John, P. Co. H, Eng.; e. Oct. 27, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1892 Ralston, Jas. P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 29, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. ; is a pensioner; ad. Denver, Mo. 

1893 Ralston. Josiah, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 29, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

1894 Ralston, Wm., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

1895 Ramsey, Dan., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

1896 Ramsey, Thos., P. Co. E. 25th; e. June 5, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

1897 RANDOLPH MAHLON, Capt. Cos. A and F, Eng. ; e. Dec. 30, 1861, St. 

Louis, Mo., disch. special order, Dec. 25, 1833; ad. room 14, No. 245, 
Broadway, New York City. 

1898 Randolph. Mich., P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22. 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

1899 Ransom, Shores, P. Co. I, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, Grundy Co., Mo. 

1900 Rapp, Benj., P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1901 Rarick, Henry, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Paris, 111.; is pen- 

sioned; ad. Paris, 111. 



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1902 Rasco, Jas. 11., P. Cos. K, 2.5th, G and C, Eng.; e. Feb. 11, 1863, Littsville, 

Mo.; ad. Sidney, Iowa. 

1903 Rasco, Logan, P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. April 10, 1863, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; ad. Sidney, Iowa. 

1904 Raspberry, Jas., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e Feb. 7, 1862, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 
19043^Rathburn, Lewis, P. Co. H, Eng.; e. Oct. 25, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. 

dis. St. Louis, July 2, 1862. 
Ray, Dan. B., P. Co. E, 25th; e. June 11, 1862, Holt Co., Mo.; ad. Tecum- 

seh. Neb. 
Raybourne, John H., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Roseville, 111.; 

drowned Jackson, Tenn., July 2, 1862, while trying to save a drowning 

comrade. 
Reardon, Jas., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. March 1, 1862. 
Rease, Fredk., P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Reed, Eugene L., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

disch. Jefferson Barracks. Mo., Nov. 24, 1862. 
Reed, Sam. B., Mus. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1862, Arcadia, 

Mo.: ad Piedmont, Mo. 
Reed, Thomas B., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug 13, 1862, Sandford, Ind.; 

pensioner; ad. Bowie, Tex. 
Reed, Thomas H., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. June 1, 1862. Nodaway 

Co. , Mo. 
Reed. Wm. S., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1862, Arcadia, Mo.; 

ad. Hogan, Iron Co., Mo. 

1914 Reidy, Jas., Sergt. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Jan. 3, 1862, Kansas City, 

Mo. ; ad. same. 

1915 Regot, Henry. P. Co. A, 25th; e. Sept. 1, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

1916 Reidel, Chas., P. Cos. B, 25th, L and E, Eng. ; e. March 1, 1863, Kansas City, 

Mo. 

1917 Reiner, Casper, P. Co. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1918 Reiner, John, P. Co B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1919 Reiner, Louis, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

ad. same; has a pension. 

1920 Reineka, Henry, P. Cos. G, land D, Eng.; e. Aug. 18, 1862, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; dead. 
Rehmann. Henry, P. Co. G. Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

Remyer, J., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. . 

Renz, Martin, P. Co. B, 25th and L, Eng. ; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Resmeyer, Fred. Cor. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
Ressler, Phil., Sergt. Co. B, Eng.; e. Sept. 15. 1862. 
Resplandin, Otto. P. Cos. B, 25th. L and E, Eng.; e. June 13, 1863, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 
Reuter, Chas., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Bloomington, Iowa; died of 

pernicious remittent fever, near Young's Point, La., about March 25, 1868. 
Reuter, Jas., P. Co. B, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, IMo. 
Reuter. Joseph, P. Co. G, 25th ; e Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 
Reynolds, Chas., P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis. Mo. 
Reynolds, Howard, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Nov. 5, 1861, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; ad. Wilcox, Mo. 
Reynolds, John, Cor. Cos. G, 35th, L and E, Eng.; e. May 33, 1863, Harlem, 

Mo. 
Rhodes, Alb't, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; draws a 

pension ; ad. St. Charles, Mich. 
Rhodes, Noah, P. Cos. D, F and B. Eng.; e. Sept. 14. 1861, Flora, 111. 
Rhodes, Peter, P. Co. I, 25th; e. March 27, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. De 

Kalb, Mo. 
Rhodes, Wm. C. P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14. 1861, Guilford, Mo. 
Rhoads, David, P. Co. H, 25th ; e. Sept. 3 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo. 
Rhoads, Jas. M., P. Co. H. 36th ; e. Sept. 3, 1862, Nodaway Co., Mo. 
Rhae, John A., Cor. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 27, 1861, McGregor, Iowa. 
Rice, Alex. F., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, New London, Iowa. 
Rice, Geo. W., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 3, 1862, North Salem, Mo. 
Rice, John, P. Co. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 2, 1863. 



228 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

1943 Rice, Sarency, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 26, 1863, Sandford, Ind.; 

disch. dis. Washington, D. C, May 30, 1865; ad. Sandford, Ind. 

1944 Ricedorf. Geo. W., Cor. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. July,22, 1861, Doni- 

phan, Kas. 

1945 Rich, VVm. J., p. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 26, 1862, Iron Co., Mo. 

1946 Richard, Jacob, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng.; e. ; ad. Fredonia, Kas. 

1947 Richards, Geo., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 19, 1861, ISodaway Co., Mo. 

1948 Richards, Jas. H., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1949 Richardson, John, P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1950 Richardson, Leroy, Cor. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie 

City, 111. 

1951 Richardson, Wm. C, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., Mo, 

1952 Richardson, Wm. B., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

died Nov. 24, 1862, at Jackson, Tenn. 

1953 Ricketts, Jno. S., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 11, 1861, Jefferson City, 

Mo.; disch. dis., in 1863. 

1954 RICKETTS, JOSHUA, Lt. Cos. B and C,Eng.;e. July 28, 1861, at Paris, 111.; 

res. Feb. 16, 1863. He is an editor and proprietor of a newspaper at 
Ashmore, 111. 

1955 Ricketts, T. S. S., P. Co. H. 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Maryville, Mo. 

1956 Reidel, Chas., Cor. Co. G, 25th and L, Eng. ; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Kansas City, Mo. 

1957 Riley, Jas., P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng. ; e. July 3, 1862. 

1958 Riley, John, P. Cos. A. 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Nov. 5, 1862, Andrew 

Co., Mo. 

1959 Riley, John W., P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. May 25, 1863, Clay 

Co., Mo. 

1960 Rippetoe, John, P. Co. F, Eag.; e. Oct. 14, 1861, Bloomingtou, 111. 

1961 Rister, Hugh, P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, 'Flora, 111.; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Homer, 111. 

1962 Ritgarot, Christ., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. ; ad. same; has a pension. 

1963 Roach, John, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; dead. 

1964 Roark, Lewis, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1965 Roberts, David, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1966 Roberts, Flavius J., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Nov. 2, 1861. Rockport, Mo. 

1967 Roberts, Jesse, P. Cos. C. 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 19, 1861, Belmont, 

Mo.; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

1968 Roberts, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

1969 Roberts, Lewis F., P. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. Aug. 24, 1861, Vermillion, 

111.; dead. 

1970 Roberts, Thos. B., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e, Sept. 18, 1861, Vermillion, 111. 

1971 Robertson, Wm., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1972 Robbins, Joseph, Sergt. Cos. K, 25th, G and C. Eng.: e. Feb. 1, 1862, Haw- 

leyville, Iowa; draws a pension; ad. Elk City, Kas. 

1973 Robbins, Wm., P. Co. K, 25lh; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Hawleyville, Iowa. 

1974 Robinson, Jas., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Aug. 28, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

1975 Robinson, Jas., P. Cos. H, 25th, M andE. Eng.; e. July 21, 1863, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; killed in the Centralia massacre, Sept. 27, 1864. 

1976 Robinson, Jerome B., Cor. Co. G. 25th; e. Feb. 3, 1862, Omaha, Neb. 

1977 Robinson, Geo., P. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

1978 Robinson, Henry M.. P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 6, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1979 Robinson, Saml. M., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng,;e. July 21, 1863, 

Nodaway Co., Mo. 

1980 ROBINSON J. W., Capt. Co. C, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. .loseph. Mo.; not 

accounted for after March, 1862. 

1981 Roby, Wm., Sergt. Cos. B, K and A, Eng.; e. Aug. 5,1861 Paris, HI.; 

promoted 2d Lt., June 12, 1865. 

1982 Rodebaueh, Danl., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie 

City, HI. 

1983 Roderick, Lewis A., P. Co. K, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, Forest City, Mo. 

1984 Roderick, Lewis, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July— .1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

1985 Rogers, B., P. Co. H, Eng.; e. ; dead. 

1986 Roede, John, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mr, 

1987 Roesler, Philip H., P. Co. B, 25th ; e. 



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1988 Rogers, Benj., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 12, 1861, Kentucky, 111. 

1989 Rogers, Jas., P. Co. C, 25th ; e. Julv 23, 1861, Stewartsville, Mo. 

1990 Rogers, Saml., P. Co. C, 25th ; e. Aug. 1, 1861, Stewartsville, Mo. 

1991 Roher, Benj. E., P. Cos. B and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

1992 Rohsicher, Edward, P. Co. B, 25th ; e. April 19, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1993 Romaine, Amos, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 22, 1861,St.Joseph, 

Mo. 

1994 Roman, Olaf P., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

1995 Romande, Joseph, P. Co. B, 25th, e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

1996 Roney, Patrick, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct, 25, 1861. Bloomington, 111. 

1997 Rose, Caswell, P. Cos. K. 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. Nov. 5, 1862, Page Co., Iowa; 

killed in Centralia massacre Sept. 27, 1864. 

1998 Rose, Lewis, Cor. Cos. B, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. March 20, 1863, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

1999 Rosebaugh, A. J., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2000 Ross, Alf. D., P. Cos. I and C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 23. 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

2001 Ross, Christopher, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. March 10, 1863 ; dead. 

2002 Ross, Isaac W., P. Cos. B, K and A, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. ; vet.; 

draws a pension ; ad. Vermillion, 111 

2003 Rostock, Ferdin., Mus., Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 15, 1861, 

Oregon, Mo.; ad. same. 

2004 Rothe, Carl, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. ; e. . 

2005 Rothmel, Wm., P. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Bloomington, 111.; 

has a pension; ad. Paoli, Kas. 
2005i^Rouse, John, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 5, 1861. 

2006 Rouse, Marion, P. Co. C, 25th; e. July 23, 1861. 

2007 Rowe. .Tas., P Co. A, 25th; e. July 25, 1862, St. Joseph. Mo. 

2008 ROWELL, CHAS. T., Capt. Co. B, Eng. ; e. July 21, 1861, Paris, 111.; served 
until Aug. 5, 1861, and refused to muster; dead. / 

ROWLEY, JOHN 1)., Lt. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861; res. July 14, 1863; / 

ad. Holden, 111. r 

2010 Rowley, John B., P. Co. K. Eng.; e. Oct. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2011 Rubel, Jac, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13. 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

is a pensioner; ad. Cape Girardeau. 

2012 Reddick, John, P. Co. G, Eng.: e. July 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau. Mo. 

2013 Rudolph, Victor, Sergt. Co. B, 2oth and L. Ene. ; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2014 RUMBAUGH, GEO. W., Capt. Co. K, 25lh; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Hawleyville, 

low^a; res. Sept. 2. 1862. 

2015 Rummell, David, P. Cos. D and C, Ener.; e. Oct. 27, 1861, Mereditia, 111. 

2016 Ruof, John. P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2017 Rusmisel, Geo. M., P. Cos C, 25th, and A, Eng. ; e. . 

2018 Rusmisel, John H., P. Cos. C. 25th, and A, Ene.; e. . 

2019 Russell, Soloman. P. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 7, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2020 Ryan, Andrew, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Aug. 9. 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2021 Ryan, Richard A., 1st Sergt. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

killed inaction near Farmington, IMiss., during the siege of Corirlh, May 
29, 1862; he was a very capable and well-liked soldier, and had just been 
recommended for promotion. 

2022 Rvan, Thomas, P. Co A, En2-.;e. Julv 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2023 Ryan, Wm., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D", Eng.; e. Feb. 2, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 
2034 Reinhold, Joseph, P. Co. A, 35th, M and E, Eng. ; e. Jan. 1, 1862, Wyandotte, 
Kas. 

2025 Randall, Theo. P., P. Co. G, Eng. ; e.— ; died Young's Point, La., April, 1863. 

2026 Rupert, Levi, P. Cos. A and E, Eng., e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

dead; died Burlington. Iowa, about 1878, of chronic diarrhoea. 

3027 Sadner, John, P. Co. I. 25th ;e. Nov. 1, 1861. 

3038 Salisbury, Henry M., P. Co. A, 35th; e. Dec 18, 1861, Elwood, Kas. 

3029 Salvaare, Rudolph, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aue. 26, 1861, Stewartsville. Mo. 

2030 SALSM.\N, GUSTAVUS, Lt. Co K, 25th, and G, Eng. ; e. Feb. 1, 1862, For- 
rest City, Mo. ; disch. Oct. 31 , 1864. 

3031 Sampson, Benj. F.. P. Co. D, 35th; e. July 12. 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

3033 Samp.son, Dennis, P. Co. C, 35th, M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 37, 1863. 



230 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2033 Sampson, Josiah, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2034 Sanders, Geo. A., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eug.; e. Aug. 15. 1862, Paris, 111. 

2035 Sanders, Jack (alias Jack Hastings), P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, 

Mich.; dead. 

2036 Sanders, Joseph, P. Co. D, 35lh; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2037 Sandusky, Andrew, Cor. Co, C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Mar. 4, 1862, An- 

drew Co., Mo.; ad. Cosby, Mo. 

2038 Sanford, Fred., P. Co. G, Eug.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2039 SANFORD, NATHAN, Capt. Co. H, Eng ; e. Sept. x5, 1861, Camden, 111.; 

after raising Co. H he failed to muster. 

2040 Sanford, Nathan, P. Cos. D and C, Eug.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Camden, 111. 

2041 Saramau, Jas., P. Cos. K. 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1862. 
2043 Sarine, Henry, P. Co. H, 35th; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Maryville, Mo. 

2043 Savage, Abial, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.: e. Sept. 16, 1861, Ft. JNIadison, Iowa. 

2044 Savage, Chester, P. Co. E, Eug.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; died about 

1883, at Medina, Mich. 

2045 Savage, John, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2046 Scaulan, Pat., P. Co. G, 35th; e. June 26, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2047 Sanger, Thomas, P. Co. H, 35th; e. • ; ad. Breckenridge, Mo. 

2048 Scarff, Wm. I'., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Jan. 18, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2049 Scarlett, Nelson II., P. Co. E, 35th; e. July 32, 1861, Forest City, Mo. 

2050 Schaffer, John. P. Co. B, 35th; e. Feb. 28, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2051 Schaltenhand, Edward, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St Joseph, Mo. 

2052 Schoup, Fred, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2053 Scheele, John O., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Auc:. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; deserted 

Oct. 17, 1863. 

2053i^Schill, Martin, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng.; e. ; ad. Soldiers' Home, Leav- 
enworth, Kas. 

2053i^Scheidins, Frank, P. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. July 3, 1861, St. Joseph, 
Mo. 

2054 Schleip, Fred, P. Co. B, 25th and L, Eng. ; e. Aug. 1, 1861, Laclede, Mo. 

2055 Schmidt, Fred, P. Cos. G and I, Eug.; e. Sept 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

ad. Appleton, Mo. 

2056 Schmidt, Henry, P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2057 SCHMITZ, J(^SEPH, Capt. Co. B, 35th; e. May 16, 1861. 

2058 Schmumacher, Geo., Sergt. Co. B, 25th aud L, Eug.; e. June 13, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2059 Schnuble, Michael, P. Cos. L. I and D, Eng.; e. • . 

2060 Schnittens, Jac, P. Cos. H, 25th; M and E, Eng.; e. Oct. 27, 1861, Andrew 

Co., Mo. 

2061 Schneider, John B., P. Co. G, 25th aud L, Eng. ; e. March 9, 1863, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2062 Schneider, Emil. P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. s:ime; a pensioner. 

2063 Schoen, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.;e. Sent. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

ad. same; is pensioned. 

2064 Schofield, Jas., Serat. Co. F, 35th; e. Aug 21, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2065 Scholl, Henry, P. Cos. G, I aud D, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

2066 SCHONSCHEN, JAS., Lt. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, Mo. 

2067 Schrader, Clirisioph., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. ; pensioned. 

2068 Schrader, Fred., P. Cos. G aud I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. same; is a pensioner. 

2069 Schroeder. Fred., P. Cos. G and I. Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau; 

ad. same; is pensioned. 

2070 Schubert. Herman, Sergt. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. June 27, 1861, 

Wvandotle, Kas. 

2071 Schiffelt. F. M., P. Co. A, 35th; e. June 15. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2072 Schottnian, Wm., P. Cos. G audi. Eng.; e. Sept. 13. 1861. Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. same; has a pension. 

2073 Schifflett. J. M., P. Co. A, 25th; e. July 8, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

2074 Shultz. Jac. P Co A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2075 Schumacher, Christian, P. Co. B. 35th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 



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2076 Schurner, John, Cor. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo, 

2077 Scott, Jeremiah, P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1864, Sandford, Ind.; draws a 

pension; ad. Fountainett, Ind. 

2078 Scoville, Asa C, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Maryville, Mo. 

2079 SCOVILLE, ELBERT E., Lieut. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Nov. 27, 

1861, Victoria, jNIo. ; ad. Hamilton, Mo. 

2080 Scroop, John, P. Co. B, Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2081 SCUPHAM, JOHN R., Lt. Co. B, Eng. ; e. . 

2083 Seiberts, Ferdinand, Sergt. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2083 Seiferd, Geo., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

2084 Seller, Mich., P. Cos. G and I, Eng. ; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cfipe Girardeau, Mo. 

2085 Seeman, Fred., Cor. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 
2085i^Seeman, Geo., P. Cos. B, 25th and L. Eng ; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2086 Sellers, Marcus D., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1864. 

2087 Senor, M. D. L., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 13, 1862, Troy, Kas. 

2088 Senor, Thos. P., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 15, 1862, Troy, Kas. 

2089 Senthouse, John, P. Cos H and D, Eng.; e. Nov. 11, lb61, Belleville, III; 

has a pension; ad. Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, Kas. 

2090 Serber, Eliel, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 28, 1861. 

2091 Sexton, Michael, P. Co. G, 25th; e. July 5, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2092 Sliackelford, Sanil. N.. P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Mar. 28, 1862, St .Joseph, Mo.; 

pensioned; ad. Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, Kas. 

2093 Shafer, Geo. K., P. Co. B. 25th; e. Aug. 1, 1861, Liuneus, Mo. 

2094 Shaffer, Fred, Sergt. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2095 Sanborn, Francis, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Julv 23, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2096 Shandy, Henry H., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 25, 1861, 

Atchison Co., Mo. ; ad. Phelps City, Mo. 

2097 Shandy, Thos. H., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 25, 1861, 

Atchison Co., Mo.; ad. 606 Delaware St., Leavenworth, Kas. 

2098 Shank, Lemuel. P. Co. H, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1862, Paris, 111.; disch. dis. Aug. 

15, 1862, Jackson, Tenn.; att. New Goshen, Ind. 

2099 Shankliu, Jas., P. Co. H, 25th; e. , Nodaway Co., Mo. 

2100 Shauley, Danl. L., P. Co. B, 25th, L, and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 16, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2101 Shannon, Lawrence, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 12, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2102 Shannon, Wm., P. Co. C, 25th; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2103 Sharkey, Thos., P. Co. K, 25th; e. June 21, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2104 Shawcross, Morris F., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111.; ad. Avon, 111. 

2105 Shedd, Chas. F., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

ad. Fairfield, Neb. 

2106 Shedd, Jas. A., Sergt. Cos. I and C, Eng ; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

dead. 

2107 Sheely, Fred, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2108 Shelby, Calvin, P. Co. — , 25th and A, Eng.; e. . 

2109 SHELTON, CHAS. S., Sur. Eng.; e. Aug. 11. 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; res. 

July 30, 1863; died, Jersey ('ity, N. J., about 1869. 

2110 Slielton, Thomas, P., Cos, H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 23, 1863, Pocahontas, 

Tenn. 

2111 Slierrard, Saml., P. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. June 15, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. Fair port, Mo. 

2112 Sheilds, David, P. Co. H, 25th; e. . 

2113 SHERWOOD, DANIEL B, Lt. Cos. C and I, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, 

Prairie City, 111.; died Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Aug. 8, 1863. 

2114 Shesley, Aaron, P. Cos. I and C, Eug.; e. Aug. 30, 1862, Littleton, 111.; ad. 

same. 

2115 Shesley, Josiah M., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 30. 1862, Littleton, 111. 

2116 Shewell, Zach., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carl}ic, 111.; die<l St. 

Louis, Mo., Oct. 31,1861. 

2117 Schilling, Bertholdi, P. Co. G,25th ; e. Feb. 1, 1862. Kansas City, Mo. 

2118 SHINN, GEO.W., Lt. Co. B, 25th ; e. July 25, 1862 ; disch. Jan. 1, 1864. 

2119 Shintal, Christoph, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 



232 THE FIKST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2120 Shopers, Henry, P. Co. B, 25th ; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2121 Short, Phil., Cor. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2122 Shrieves, Washt., P. Cos. land D, Eug.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Kushville, III.; 

deserted at Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 12, 1863. 

2123 Shults, John, P. Co. D, 25th ; e. July 12. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2124 SHUMAN, (iEO. W.. Lt., Co. B, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2125 .SHURTLEFF, NATHANIEL, Capt. Co. K, 25th ; e. Feb. 1, 1862, Forest 

City. Mo., res. Jan. 23, 1863. 

2126 Sigler, Valentine, P. Co, C, 25th ; e. . 

2127 Sigler, Adolph, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Dec' 15, 1863, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2128 Sheard, Samuel, P. Cos. B, 25th ; and L. Eng.; e . 

2129 Shell, Jas. F., P. Co. I, 25th; e ; ad Maryville, Mo. 

2130 Sillick, Asher, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, '1861, Burlingtun, Iowa. 

2131 Silvers, Francis M., P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 15, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2132 Simerly, Andrew, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 19, 1862, Andrew Co., Mo. 

2133 Simms, Isaac, P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 30, 1861, Oxford, Mo. 

2134 Simmonds, Geo. F., Sergt. Co. A, 25th; e. July 17, 1862, Color Sergt. of 25th. 

2135 Simmons, Jas. B., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

ad. Scott Citv, Kas. 

2136 Simon, Francis, P. Co. A, Eng. ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2137 Simpkius. Thos. D., P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Sept. 26, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

2138 Sine, Lorenzo D., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

2139 Singleton. Henrv. Seret. Co. I, 25th; e. July 29, 1861, Gallatin, Mo. 

2140 SINdiLETON, JOHN' W.. Lt., Co. I, 25th; e Nov. 1, 1861, Gallatin, Mo.; ad. 

Parsons, Kas.; res. March 18, 1863 

2141 Singleton, Julius F., P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. March 17, 1863, Gal- 

latin, Mo. 

2142 Singleton, Wm. O., P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. March 17, 1863, Gal- 

latin, Mo. 

2143 Sirmers, Jas., P Co. C. Eug.; e. Oct. 5, 1864. 

2144 Sligo, F. M., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Aug. 7, 1861, Weston, Mo. 

2145 Shinn, Saml., P. Co, A, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2146 Sloan, Jas., P. Co, H, 25th; e. Aug. 20, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

2147 Slocum, John, P. Co. H. 25th; e. Aug. 4, 1861. 

2148 Skidmore, Newton, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Sept. 17, 1861, Pleasant View, Mo. 

2149 Skirviu, Wm., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Schuyler Co., Ill, • 

2150 Smiley, John G., P. Co. G, 2oth; Jan. 18, 1861, Independence, Mo. 

2151 Smith, Ashel, P. Co. A, 25th: e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2152 Smith, Chas. D., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 2, 1862, White Cloud, Kas. 

2153 Smith, Donnelly, Cor. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Manchester, Iowa. 

2154 Smith, Daniel F., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich, 

2155 Smith, Franklin, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2156 Smith, Geo. W,, P. Co. E Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian. ]\[ich. 

2157 Smith, Francis, P. Cos. I, C and A. Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Kushville, 111.; 

vet. Feb. 4, 1864; pensioned; ad. Neosho, Mo. 

2158 Smith, Francis M., P. Co. E. 25th; e. Jan. 10, 1862, Holt Co., Mo. 

2159 Smith, Hamilton D , P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861; ad. Terre Haute, Ind.; 

is a pt^nsioner. 

2160 Smith, Henry H., P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, HI. 

2161 Smith, Jacob, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Grand Detour, 111.; died St, 

Louis, Mo., Feb. 1862. 

2162 Smith, Jas., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 11. 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; died Gen. 

Hos. Cincinnati, Ohio. June, 1862. 

2163 Smith. Jas B., P. Co.s. F,25th, H and D. Eng.;e. Oct. 1, 1862, Bucklin, Mo.; 

ad. Dunlap, Kas. 

2164 Smith, John, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2165 Smith, John, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Oct. 17, 1861, Paris. Ill, 

2166 Smith, John, P, Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2167 Smith, John, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aue;. 15, 1861, Douglas Co., Mo. 

2168 Smitli, John S., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; has a 

pension; ad. Tuscola, 111. 



THE ROSTER. 233 

2169 Smith, Joseph, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Rushville, 111.; ad. 

same. 

2170 Smith, Littleton A., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; Nov. 12, 1861; Pleasant Hill, 

111. 

2171 Smith, Montillion, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Dubuque, 

Iowa. 

2172 Smith, Peter, P. Co. Drum Major, 25th; e. ; ad. Malvern. Iowa. 

2173 Smith, Richard, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2174 SMITH, ROBERT G., Lt. Cos. A and F, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; res. Feb. 16, 1863. 

2175 Smith, Wm., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2176 Smith, Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

3177 Smith, Wm. G., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

3178 Smith, Wm. J., P. Co. B.Eng ; e. July'28, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2179 Smith, Thos. J., P. Co. H, 25th; e. July 28, 1863, Andrew Co., Mo. 

2180 Smith, Thos. P., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 15, 1862, Troy, Kas. 

2181 Smith, Walter E., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2182 Smitzon, Henry, P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1862, Independ- 

ence, Mo. 

2183 Snider, Geo. , P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng. ; e. Feb. 10, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 
3184 Snider, Jas. A., Priu. Mus., Eng. and Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng. ;e. Aug. 4, 

1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2185 Snooks, Geo. E., P. Cos. A, 25th, and M and E, Eng.; e. June 20, 1861, 

Rushville, Mo. 

2186 Snorf, Milton C, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.;e. Aug. 12, 1862, New Goshen, 

Ind. ; ad. Brainard, Kas. 

2187 Snow, Edwin A. , P. Co. A. 25th; e. June 3, 1863, St. Joseph Mo. ; ad. Ottawa, 

Kas. 

2188 Snow, Edwin H., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2189 Snyder, Dexter, P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1863, De Kalb 

Co., Mo. 

2190 Snyder, John B., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 24, 1861, De Kalb 

Co. , Mo. 

2191 Saleman, Herman, P. Cos. L and I, e. . 

3192 Soper, Joseph, P. Co. E, Eng, ; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2193 Sovereign, Gabe, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2194 Spears, Sanford, P. Co. B, Eng.; e. Dec. 15, 1863. 

2195 SPAULDING, E. T., Lt. Co. C, 35th; e. March 25, 1862; died June 1, 1862. 

2196 SPEARS. HENRY, Lt. Van Horn's Battalion; e. June 28, 1861. 

3197 Speclit, Alois, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. ;ad. Cincinnati, Grant Co., Kas. 

3198 Speir, John, P. Co. F, Ene,; e. Nov. 5, 1861, Dixon, 111. 

3199 Spencer, Geo. Cor. Cos. I) andH, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, 111.; dead. 
3300 Spencer, John, P. Co. F, Eng.; e Oct. 1, 1861, Grand Detour, 111.; dead. 
3201 Sperry, Lucius, P. Cos. I and C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

dead. 
2302 Spicer, Henry, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 14, 1862, Sandford, Ind. 
3303 Splenner, Wm. J., P. Co. I, 25th; e. Aug. 6, 1861, Grundy Co., Mo. 

2204 Spoon, Geo., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Janesville, Wis. 

2205 Sprinkler, John, P. Co, C, 25th; e. Aug. 15. 1861. 

2206 Sprous, John H., P. Cos. 1, C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 30, 1861, Toolsboro. 

Iowa; ad. same. 
3307 Sprous, Sidney, P. Cos. I, C and B, Eng., e. Oct. 35, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 
3208 Spunagle, Danl., P. Cos. C and B, Eng,; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

ad. Clarinda, Iowa. 

3309 Spunaele, Jacob, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 13, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

3310 Spunagle, Wm., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

ad. Clarinda, Iowa. 

3311 Stafford, David. P. Co. C, 25th; e. Dec. 28, 1861. 

2313 Stagner. Thos. J., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 17, 1862, Stewarts- 

ville. Mo.; ad. Breckenridge, Mo. 
2213 Stailey, Solomon, P. Cos, H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1862, Sandford, Ind.; 

ad. Hume, Edgar Co., 111. 
2213^Stahl, Gabriel, P. Cos. B,25th and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 



234 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2214 Stalcup, David, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; ad. 

Laurel, Iowa. 

2215 Standeclaus, A., P. Co. H, Eng.; prom. Lt. C. T. 

2216 Standeford, — , P. Co. K, Eng. ; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Roseville, III. 

2217 Stanley, Daul. L., P. Co. G, 25th.; e. Feb. 15, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2218 Stanley, Jas. T., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 17, 1863, Independ- 

ence, Mo.; pensioner; ad. Tekama, Burt Co., Neb. 

2219 Stanley, Joa. W., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 17, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2220 Stanly, Thos.. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 18. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo ; ad. same. 

2221 Stanley, John T., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. ; ad. Mexico, Mo. 

2222 Stanton, Ed., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 19, 1861, Holt Co., Mo.; ad. Veteran's 

Home, Napa Co., Cal. 

2223 Stanton, Jas. S., Cor. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Denmark, Iowa; 

a pensioner; ad. Garner, Iowa; disch. dis. 1863. 

2224 Stansberry, Eph. B., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2225 Starr, John S., Hos. Stewd., Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Denmark, Iowa: died 

Atlanta, Ga., of dysentery, Oct., 1864. 

2226 Statelan, Erastus, P. Co. C" 25th; e. June 10, 1862. 

2227 Staube, Geo., P. Co. A, 25th: e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

2228 Steaele, Joseph, P. Cos. A and K. Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, St. Louis. Mo. 

2229 Steinberg, Fred, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, IfcOl, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.: ad. Jackson, Mo. 

2230 Steineman, Adolph, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 
2230i^Steinforth, Henry, P. Cos. B, D and L, Eng.; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St Joseph, 

Mo. 
3231 Steinhoff, Ernest, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

2232 Steuihoff. Wm , Cor. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau. 

Mo.; pensioner; ad. Cambridueboro, Pa. 

2233 Stember, John T., P. Co. G. 25th; e. Nov. 1. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2234 Stephens, Jas., P. Cos. H, :25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1862, Nodaway 

Co., Mo. 

2235 Stephens, John, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.;e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

died, Otterville, Mo.. March 25, 1862, typoid fever. 

2236 Stephens, Isaac, P. Co. G, 25th and L. Enii.; e. March 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2237 Stephens, John O., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1862, Nodaway 

Co., Mo.; ad. St. Joseph. Mo. 

2238 Stephens, Pete, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Jan. 18, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2239 Sternberg, Fred, P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girar- 

deau, ]\Io. 

2240 Stewart, Alex, P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb, 22, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 
3241 Stewart, Z. P., P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1861, New London, Iowa. 

2242 Stewart, Henry, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 15, 1861, Elmwood, Mo. 

2243 Stewart, Jas., P. Co. B. Entj.; e. July 25, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. same. 

3244 Stewart. John L., Cur. Co.^F, Eng.: e. Sept. 23, 1861, Bloomington, 111.; 
has a pension; ad. Shell Hock, Iowa. 

2245 Stewart, John, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 1, 1861, Decatur. 111.; ad. same; 

draws a pension, 

2246 Stewart, Marion, P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861. Paris, 111,; ad. Brocton, 

111.; is a well-to-do farmer and stockbroker. 

2247 Stewart, Thos. C, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 24, 1861, McGregor, Iowa; 

ad. Petersburff, Ind. ; pensioner. 

2248 Stewart, Wm. H., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo.; 

ad. Baldwin City, Kas. 

2249 Stewart, Wm. W.', Sergt. Cos. C and B, Eng.: e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111.; ad. Greeley, Iowa (orViueland, Kas.). 

3350 Stiff, Isaac C, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 
vet. Jan. 18. 1864. 

2151 Stillions, Danl. M., Cor. Cos. K, 25th, :\[ and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 15, 1861. 
Hawleyville, Iowa. 

2252 Stillwell, Francis M.. P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, Lex- 
ington, Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 235 

2253 Stinson, Richard P., P. Cos. C aud B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

111. 

2254 Stickler, Daniel, P. Cos. L and I, Eng. ; e. . 

2255 Stoelzer, Wm., P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

2256 Stoddard, Wm. B., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Avon, 111. 

2257 Stockwell, Jas., P. Co. I, 25th ; e. Aug. 25, 1861, Pleasant View, Mo. 

2258 Stokes, Joseph, P. Cos. H aud D, Eng.; e. Nov. 9, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. ; 

deserted March, 1862. 

2259 Stoneking, John G., P. Co. C, Eng ; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Birmingham, 111.; 

disch. die. St. Louis, Mo., March 31, 1862. 

2260 Stoll, Jacob, P. Co. B, 25th ; e. July 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2261 Stolte, Christoph, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. ; pensioner, Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo. 

2262 STORY, OSCAR F., Capt., Cos. F, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; 

disch. Jan. 4, 1865, at Bucklin, Mo.; died. 

2263 Stotts, David C, P. Cos D, 25th and A, Eng.; e. July 30, 1861, Andrew Co., 

Mo.; ad. Savannah, Mo. 

2264 Stotts, Jac, P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; a pensioner, 

ad. \ermilliou, 111. 

2265 Stotts, Wm., P. Cos. B, K and A, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1862, Vermillion, 111.; 

ad. same; is pensioned. 

2266 Stout, Wm. S., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 21, 1861, Civil Bend, Mo. 

2267 Strange, Kobt., P. Co. F, 25th; e. March 7, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2268 Strasser, Wm., P. Cos. L, I and D. Eng.; e. . 

2269 Striblin, Jordan, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2270 Strickland, Wes. C, P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2271 Stringer, Jas., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2272 Strong, Rufus C, P. Co. K, Eng : e. Oct. 31. 1861, Bloomington, 111. 

2273 Strotsteffen. John, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, West Point, Iowa; 

has a pension; ad. Lincoln, Neb. 
2273i^Stuber, John, P. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2274 "Studa, Lucas. P. Co. B, Eng,; e. June 20, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2275 Stufflebean, Geo., P. Co F, 2oth; e. Dec. 21, 1861, North Salem, Mo. 

2276 Stufflebean, John, P. Co. F, 25th; e. May 2, 1862, North Salem, Mo. 

2277 Stump, Joseph, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 12, 1861, Vermillion, 

111.; dead. ^ ' 

2278 Stevens; John, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 10, 1862, Iowa Point, Kas. 

2279 Stephenson, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, Clinton, Mo. 

2280 Sutor, Lewis, P. Co. A, 25th; e. March 7, 1862, Clinton, Mo. 

2281 Suler, Mich., P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng. ; e. June 23, 1862, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2282 Sullivan, Daniel, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 22. 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2283 Sullivan, Florence, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. March 8, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2284 Sullivan, John, P. Co. F, Eng.;e. Sept. 25, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; deserted 

Commerce, Mo., March 5, 1862. 

2285 Sullivan, Thomas, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 22, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2286 SUMNER, H. M., Lt. Cos. A, D and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 31, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; oromoted Capt. June 12, 1865; died about 1880. 

2287 Surm. Lorenzo D., P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 16, 1861. 

2288 Sutton. George, P. Co. F. Eng.: e. Sept. 2, 1861'; Cassville, Wis.; draws a 

pension; ad. Boscnbel, Wis. 

2289 Sutton, Robert, P. Cos. D, F and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2290 Swank, John, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 19, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; is 

pensioned; ad. Pomeroy, Wash. T. 

2291 Swank, William 11. H., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 19, 1861, Burlington, 

Iowa; was Hos. Cook over two years, owing to his inability for active 
duty; is a pensioner; ad. Eugene, Iowa. 

2292 Swansen, Irwin, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2293 Swansen, Swan, P. Co.«. K aud D, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 

is pensioned ; ad. York, Neb. 

2294 Swartwout Jas., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 31, 1861, Oregon, 

Mo. 

2295 Sweeney, Jas., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

2296 Sweeney, Hugh, P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 



236 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2397 Sweeney, Thos., P. Co. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Jan. 14, 1862, Ham- 
ilton, Mo. 

2298 Sweet, Spencer, P. Co. D, Eng.; e. August 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; discla. 

dis. June 25, 1863, Milliken Bend, Miss. 

2299 Swimmer, Henry, P. Co. A, 25th; e. July, 15, 1861, Maryville, Mo. 

2300 Swettman, Wm., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

2301 Sylvester, John W., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Burlington, 

2302 STAPLES, C. A., Chap. Eng.; e. Oct. 31, 1861; res. June 6, 1»62. 

2303 Seeman, John, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 18, 1861. Adrian, Mich.; is a pen- 

sioner; ad. Ottawa Lake, Mich. 

2304 Shatzle, Chas., P. Cos. C, 25th, and A, Eng.; e. . 

2305 Tabler, Benj. F., Sergt. Cos. Hand D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Vermillion, 111.; 

is pensioned; ad. Albany, Oreg. 

2306 Talbot, Thos., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2307 Talcott, Dean, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Manchester, Iowa; has a pen- 

sion; ad. Maynard, Iowa. 

2308 Tally, Elihu G., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.;e. Sept. 24, 1863, Pocahontas, Tenn.; 

draws a pension; ad. Abingdon, 111 

2309 TANNER, BENJ. R., Lt. and Capt. Cos. K, 25th, G and D, Eng. ; e. Dec. 

1, 1861, Hawleyville, Iowa; pensioned; ad. Brown P. O., .Montrose Co., 
Colo. 

2310 Tanner, John P., Sergt. Co.B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2311 Taylor, Geo. L., Cor. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, Iowa', 

ad. Aurora, 111. 

2312 Taylor, John T., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and E, Eng.; e. March 1, 1863, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2313 Taylor, Wm. L., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, Rushville, 111.; died in 

hospital, Cairo, 111., Aue:. 9, 1863. 

2314 Taus, Alex., P. Cos. H, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. June 26, 1861, Nodaway 

C, Mo. 

2315 Tearney, John, P. Co. A, 35th; e. June 36, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2316 Tebbins, Herman, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eug.; e. . 

2317 Templer, John, P. Co. F, 25th; e. Aug. 19, 1861, Douglas Co., Mo. 

2318 Templeton, Thos. G.,* Sergt. Co. E. Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; 

prom. 1st Lt. 1st Mich. Eug.; dead. 

2319 Terry, Enos A., P. Co. I. 35th; e. Sept. 31, 1861, Davies Co., Mo. 

2320 TETER LOUIS, Lt. Co. C, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1-61, St. Joseph, Mo.; cash- 

iered March 11, 1862. 

2321 Tetrick, John li., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Sept. 14, 1861, Flora, 111. 

2322 Tice, Chas. L., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Aug. 30. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2323 Tice, David, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 27, 1861, Holt Co., Mo. 

2324 Tilden, David, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. July 33, 1861. Holt Co., 

Mo. 

3335 Timmins, Jas., P. Cos. H and D, Eug. ; e. Oct. 19, 1861, Rushville, 111. 

2326 Tiser, Andrew, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Wapello, Iowa; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Union, Hardin Co., Iowa. 

2327 Theinert. Joseph, P. Cos L and I, Eng.; e. . 

2328 Theis, Nicholas. P. Cos L, land D, Eng.; e. ; ad. St. Louis, Mo. 

2329 THOMAS, ENNIS €., Capt. Co. D, 25th, e. July 25, 1861, DeKalb Co., Mo.; 

res. Dec. 1, 1863; ad. Plattsburg, Mo. 

2330 Thomas, .Jacob. P. Co. B, 35th and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2331 Thomas, Jas. B., P. Cos. K, 35th, G and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 18, 1863, Hawley- 

ville, Iowa: dead. 
2333 Thomas. Joseph Mc, P. Cos. K. 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 18, 1862, Haw- 
leyville, Iowa; ad. same; has a pension. 

2333 Thomas, Jas. W.. P. Co. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 29,1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; killed in Centralia massacre, Sept. 27, 1864. 

2334 Thomas .John, Mus., Co. I. 25th; e. Nov. 28, 1862, Piatt Co., Mo. 

2335 Thomas, John B., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

3336 Thomas, Josiah. P. Cos. F, 35th, H and D, Eng. ; e. Jan. 5, 1863, Rocliester, 

Mo. 

3337 Thomas, Lewis, P. Co. G, 35th; e. March 15, 1863, Clinton, Co., Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 237 

2338 Thomas, Shelton, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; et Aug. 23, 1863. Pocahontas, 

Tenn. 

2339 Thomas, W. P., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 11, 1863, Rochester 

Mo.; ad. Stewartsville (or Clarksdale), Mo. 

2340 THOMPSON, CHAS. R., Lt. Cos. D and E, Eng ; e. Oct. 31, 1861; promoted 

Capt. Gen. Rosecrans' Staff, March 7, 1863, promoted Colonel 12th U. S. 
C. T. in 1863; ad. San Diego, Cal. 

2341 Thompson, Claiborne, P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 5, 1862, Clin- 

ton, Mo. 

2342 Thompson, David, P. Co. D, 25th; e. March 2, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2343 Thompson, David, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4. 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2344 Thompson. Geo. W., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 18, 1861, Vermillion, 

111.; dead. 

2345 Thompson, John W., P. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. March 3, 1863, Vermillion, 

III. 

2346 THOMPSON, JOSEPH, Lt. Co. A and Capt. Co. I, 25th; e. June 16, 1861, 

St. Joseph, Mo. ; ad. St. Joseph, Mo. 

2347 Thompson, Joseph, Co. I, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2348 Thompson, Jacob E., Sergt. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 13, 1863; 

wounded before Columbia, S. C, Feb. 14, 1865, by a spent and unexploded 
6th shell; hit in right shoulder. 
2348i^Thompson, Louis, P. Cos. B;35th and L, Eng.; e. March 15, 1863, St. Joseph, 
Mo. 

2349 Thompson, Wm. H., P. Cos. K, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Feb. 13, 1863, St. 

Joseph, Mo ; ad. Smith Center, Kas. 

2350 Thompson, Wm., P. Co. H, Eng. ; died Nov. 1861 . 

2351 Thoruburg, John H., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. ; disch. dis. ; 

dead. 

2352 Thornburg, Leonard C, P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, III.; 

draws a pension; ad. Vermillion, 111. 

2353 THORNE, JOSHUA, Sur. Van Horn's Battalion; e. June 24, 1861. 

2354 Thresher, Geo., P. Co. A, Eng. 

2355 Thrager, Fred., P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. ; ad, Pekin, 111. 

2356 Tobin, Jas., P. Cos. H and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 18, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2357 Todd, Jas. A,, P. Co B.. Eng.: e. Sept. 13, 1862. 

2358 Todd, Lewis, P. Cos. D and C, Eng. ; e. Sept. 10, 1861, Flora, 111. 

2359 Toler, Wm , P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Sept. 18, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2360 Tombertin, Lacy, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Rushville, 111.; a 

pensioner; ad. Industrv, 111. 

2361 Tomlinson, Wm., Sergt." Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo 

2362 Toolin, Andrew. P. Co. E, 25th; e. Feb. 17, 1862, Atchison Co., Mo 

2363 Tracy, Jasper, P. Co. II, 25th; e. Nov. 27, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2364 Tracy, Joseph C, Cor. Co. G, 25th, L and E, Enc; e. Nov 20, 1861 

2365 Tracy, Thos., P, Co. D, 25th; e. June 25, 1862, A"tchison Co., Mo. 

2366 Trail, Martin, P. Cos. G, 25th and L, Eng.; e. May 23, 1863. Harlem, Mo 

2367 Tangott, Chas., P. Co. C. 25tli; e. March 5, 1863, Liberty, Mo 

2368 Trape, Chas., P. Cos. G, 25tli, L and E, Eng.; e. May 2(», 1863, Harlem, Mo 

2369 Traube, Wm., Cor. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2370 Travis, Absalom, P. Cos. I and C. Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Rushville, 111.; 

dead. 

2371 Trimborn, Peter, P. Co. A. Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, Louisiana, Mo 

2372 Tritt, Burgoyne, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1862, Sandford.Ind.; 

ad. same ; pensioner. 

2373 Tritt, Morgan, P. Co. H ; e. ; ad Sandford, Ind. 

2374 Trogden, tsa.ic R., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. May 12, 1862, Vermillion, 

111.; has pension ; ad. Sandford, Ind. 

2375 Truax, John, P. Cos. I, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Julv 23, 1862, Marvville, 

Mo. ^ , > J . 

2376 Truitt, Wm., P. Co. I. 25th; e. Sept. 21, 1861. Kidder, Mo. 

2377 Tubbs, Frank, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich.; ad. Ottawa 

Lake, Micb. 

2378 Tucker. Hiram, P. Cos. A, 25th. M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1862, New 

Madrid. Mo. 

2379 Tucker, Stephen, P. Cos. K and D, Eng. ; e. Sept. 24, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 



238 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2380 Tiickerniau, Geo., P. Co. F, 25th; e. Jan. 1, 18G2, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2381 Tulluer, Julius. Cor. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. same; pensioned. 
2383 TUNICA, FRANCIS, Lieut. Cos. K and A, Eng.; e. Isov. 21, 1861, St. Louis, 
Mo.;disch. Dec. 8, 1864. 

2383 Turner, David, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 16, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. ; ad same. 

2384 Turner, Ira. Sergt. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2385 Turner, Phil. P. Co. A, Eng.; e. Oct. 23, 1862, St. Louis, Mo. 

2386 Turner, Wm., P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 10, 1863, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2387 Turnt-y, Wm. M., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mn. 

2388 TWEEDDALE, WM., Capt. Co. F, Eng., Maj. Eng., Lt.-Col. Eng.; e. Sept. 

14, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; disch. May 31, 1865; was a civil engineer and 
contractor before the war; since has been Supt. public works and public 
buildings for the State of Kansas and built the Kansas State House; ad. 
Topeka, Kas. 

2389 Tweedy, Wm. S., P. Co. H, Eng.; e; dead. 

2390 Tyler, Jas. H., P. Co. D, 25th; e. June 25, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2391 Tyler, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 17, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
2393 Tyrrell, John, P. Co. G, 35th; e. June 6, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2393 Tool, Simuel. P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 23, 1861, Paris, 111.; draws a 

pension; ad. Connersville, lud. 

2394 Ulrich, Ernest, Sergt. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; 

disch. 

2395 Ulrich, Christian, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. — ; pensioner; ad. Advance, Mo. 

2396 Ulsh, Francis M., P. Co. E, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, Doniphan, Kas. 

2397 Ulstchi, John. P. Co. G, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, S'. Joseph, Mo. 
2397KUItschi, Jacob, P. Cos. G, 25th and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

" Mo. 

2398 Underwood, Horace, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Nov. 12, 1861, Vermillion, 

111.; a pensioner; ad. Center Valley, Ind. 

2399 Underwood, Thomas, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. 

Colwich. Kas. 
3400 Underwood, Wm., Cor. Cos. H, 25th, M and E. Eng.; e. Nov. 26, 1861. 

2401 Unkefer, William H., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. June 18, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2402 Unzer, Charles, P. Co. C, 35th; e. July 28, 1861. 

2403 Updegraff, George, P. Cos. A and K, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2404 Uthe, Christoph, P Co. A. Eag.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2405 Valaster, Mathias, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

2406 Volk, Otto, Co. B, 35th; e. Oct. 6, 1861, St. Joseph. Mo. 

2407 Vallev. Joseph D., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 24, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; disch. 

dis."^ Jackson, Tenn., Oct. 23, 1863. 

2408 Vance, Andrew J., P. Cos. II. 35th, M and E, Eng.; e. May 16, 1863, Noda- 

way Co., Mo.; ad. New Market, Iowa. 

2409 Vance, Conrad, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Sept. 22, 1862, Nodaway, Co., Mo. 

2410 Vanderhoof, Orange, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo.; ad. 

Maryville, Mo. 

2411 Vandin, John, P. Co. B.Eng.; e. Aug. 5, 1861, Paris, 111.; ad. Wichita, Kas. 

2412 Vauhoutin. J. J., Cor. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Vermillion, 

111.; pensioned; ad. Vermillion, 111. 

2413 VON DAUN. Capt. Co B, Van Horn's Battalion; e. June. 11, 1861. 

2414 TAN HORN, ROBERT T., Lt.-Col. 25th, Mo.; e. June 24, 1861. Col." Van 

Horn is editor and chief manager of the A'anms City Daily and Weekly 
Journal, and is as he always was a stanch Republican in politics. Before the 
war he was the leading Unionist of his section and raised the Van Horn 
Battalion in the vicinity of Kansas City; was elected to the State Senate 
of Missouri in 1862; the duties of which office required so much of his time 
that he was not much with his Regiment after the battle of Shiloh. He 
hasserved one or more terms as representative in Congress from his district 
since 1864. There is no editor of more influence or whose writing carries 
more weight in the country. His address is. Journal Office, Kansas City, 
Mo. 



THE ROSTER. 239 

2415 Vanguudy, Jas., P. Cos. H, 25lh, M and E, Ene;.; e. . 

2416 Vannice, Jas. S., P. Cos. C and B, Eng. ; e. Aug. 12. 1862, Bushnell, 111. 

2417 Van Norman, F. A., P. Co. B, Eng. ; e. July 28, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2418 Vansickle, Andrew, P. Co. H, 25th; e. , Nodaway, Co., Mo. 

2419 Vansickle Perry, P. Co H, 25th; e. , Nodaway Co., Mo. 

2420 Vaught, Geo. W., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Feb. 25, 1»62, Andrew Co., Mo. 

2421 Vaught, Wui. A., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 6, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

2422 Veach, Hollan, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; o. Jan. 1, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2423 Vedder, Jefferson W., Mus. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 11, 1861, Cassville, Wis. 

is pensioned; ad. Henry, Dak. 
2434 Vermillion, Reason C, P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 5, 1863, Sandford, 
Ind.; pensioned; ad. St. Mary's, Ind. 

2425 Vermillion, Wm., Cor. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2426 Vest, Chas., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 25, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

2427 Vice, Milton. P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15,^1861 , St. Louis, Mo. 

2428 Viehmann, Louis, Sergt. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. ; ad. 4622 Easton av 

St. Louis, Mo. 

2429 Vinyard, John, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 25, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2430 Vinson, Wm., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carlyle, 111.; died, Jackson 

Tenn., Aug. 8,1862. 

2431 Vinson, Jas., P. Co. H, 25th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Andrew Co., Mo. 

2432 Vogel, Wm., Sergt. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo 

killed himself with his musket, Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 4, 1864. 

2433 Vornkuhl, Conrad, P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 18, 1862, Cape Girar 

deau. Mo.; ad. same; pensioner. 

2434 Vornkuhl. Henry, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. Dec. 17, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2435 YREELAND, JACOB H., Capt. Co. A, Eng.; e. Aug. 2, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; dismissed, court martial, March 11, 1862. 

2436 VOERSTER.J. D., Capt. Cos. L and I, Eng., while in the 5th and 35th, 

Mo.; res. Jan. 17, 1862. 

2437 Vortz, Bartholomew, P. Cos. B, 25th and L. Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. 

Jo.seph, Mo. 

2438 WADE, CHAS. A.. Capt. Co. C, 25th; e. July 29, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; 

killed in battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. 

2439 Wagner, Christoph., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 29, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2440 Wagner, E. R., P. Co. H, 25th; e. . 

2441 Wagner, Ferdinand, P. Cos. F, C and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 16, 1862, Dubuque, 

Iowa; died Atlanta, Ga., Oct., 1864. 

2442 Wakefield. Jas., Cor. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. March 23, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo. 

2443 Walbridge, Henry, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Maryville, Mo. 

2444 Walden, Louis, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. Aug 13,1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2445 Walders, Fredk., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861. Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; dead. 
2346 Waldron. John, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2449 Waldron, Jasper, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; 

ad. Wayne, Kas. 
2448 Walker, Chas., Cor. Cos. C , and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 

2447 Walker, Ferdinand, P. Co. C), 25th; e. July, 25, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo 

2450 Walker, Geo. W., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Jan. 14. 1862, Gentry Co., Mo. 

2451 Walker, Laf., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2452 Walker, Wm., Cor. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 14, 1862; Gentry Co., Mo. 

2453 Walker, Wm. V. N., Sergt. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.;e. Feb. 14, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. Darlington, Mo. 

2454 Wallace, John, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. March 13, 1862; St. 

Joseph. Mo. 

2455 Wallace, Jos., P. Co. G, 25th; e. Feb. 15, 1862, Clinton, Mo. 

2456 Wallace, Wm., P. Cso. G, 25th and L, Eng.; e. Feb. 15, 1862, Clinton, Mo 

2457 Wallage, David F., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 23, 1862, Vermillion,. 

111.; has a pension; ad. Horace, 111. 

2458 Waller, Jeff. C, P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Paris, 111.; pen 

sion; ad. Dennison, 111. 



240 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2459 Wallage, B. F., P. Co. B, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2460 Waller, Wm. R., P. Cos. C, 25th, A aud E, Eug.; e. Sept. 10, 1862, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. same. 

2461 Walsh, John J., P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2462 Walsh, Joseph, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Dec. 26, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2463 Walsh, Mich., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 17, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2464 Walsh, Wm., P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 26, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2465 Walters, Vincent, P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2466 Wardlaw, Joseph, P. Cos. F, D and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, 

Mo.; dead. 

2467 Ward, Peter, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 24, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2468 Ward, Benj. W., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 10, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 

ad. Yarmouth, Iowa. 

2469 Ward, Wm. H., Co. D and Q. M. S., Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861; ad. Greenup, III.; 

pensioned. 

2470 Warner, J as., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Dec. 18, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2471 Wash, Geo. T., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 10, 1862, Oregon, Mo. 

2472 Washburn, Gus, P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2473 Washburn, Roswell G., P. Co. E, Eng., e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2474 Watkins, Amaziah, P. Cos. B aud K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2475 Watkins, E. L., P. Co. F, Eng., e. . 

2476 AVatkins, Henry H., P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carlyle, 111. 

2477 Watson, Clias. H., P. Co. G, 25th.; e. Dec. 18, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2478 Watson, Thos., Cor. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; killed in 

skirmish at Tuscumbia River June 1, 1862. 

2479 Watson, Thos., P. Co. E, 25th; e. July 22, 1H61, Holt Co., Mo. 

2480 Watts, Sinclair, P. Co. I, 25th ;e. Julv 31, 1861, Davies Co., Mo. 

2481 Webber, Jas. W., Sergt. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. July 17, 1863, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; promoted Lt. June 12, 1865. 

2482 Watkins, Samuel G., P. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 17, 1861, Carlyle, 111.; disch. 

dis. Otterville, Mo.,Feb. 6, 1863. 

2483 Watkins, Thos., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng. ; e. Oct. 2, 1862, Pilot Knob, 

Mo. 

2484 Way, Nathan J., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Nov. 6, 1862, Trenton, Iowa. 

2485 Way, Wm. B., P. Cos. D and F, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, HI.; is pen- 

sioned; ad. Olivet, Dak. 

2486 Wayt, Nathaniel, P. Co. C, 25th: e. July 7, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2487 Weatherman, M. F., P. Cos. H, 25th, ]\l and E, Eug.; e. Sept. 3, 1862, Noda- 

way Co., Mo.; is a pensioner; ad. Conception, Mo. 

2488 Weaver, Barnett, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Oct. 26, 1861, St. Jo- 

seph, Mo. 

2489 Webber, Eugene, P. Co. E, Eug.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2490 Webber, John, P. Co. E, Ens:.; e. July i3, 1861, Adrian, Mich. 

2491 Webber, Louis, P. Co. F, Eng.; e. May 28, 1862, Dubuque, Iowa. 

2492 Webster, Milo B.,P.Co.K,Eng.; e.Sept.l6, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; ad. same. 

2493 Weddell, Aaron M., P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 18, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2494 Weeklev, John. P. Co. D, 25th: e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2495 Weekley, Wm., P. Co. D. 25th; e. Julv 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2496 Weiglitman, Thomas, P. Cos. I aud C, Eng.; e. Sept. 12, 1861, Rush ville, 111.; 

a pensioner; ad. Oskaloosa, Kas. 

2497 Weiffhl, Joseph, Sergt. Co. B. 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2498 Weihl, Charles, P. Cos. B, 25th, and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. 1130 S. 16th st., St. Joseph, Mo. 

2499 Weitkam, Aug., P. Cos. L aud I, Eng.; e. . 

2500 Wertle, Jo.seph, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. . 

2501 Weller, John, P. Co. H, 25th, e. Aug. 14, 1861, Nodawav Co. , Mo. 

2502 Wellner. Fred.. P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis. Mo. 

2503 Welsh, Martin V., P. Cos. B, and K, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; 

ad. Forrest Home, Mo. 

2504 Weltire, John, P. Co. I, 25th; e. Nov. 1, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2505 Wender, Arnold, Sergt. Cos. B, 25th aud L, Eng.: e. June.l3, 1861, St. 

Joseph, Mo.; ad. Arvilla. Mo. 
2505X/Werner, Geo.. P. Cos. B, 25th and L. Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, Kansas City; 
Mo. 



THE KOSTEK. 241 

2506 WERTH, (i. LOUIS, Oapt. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 9, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; disch. Dec. 31, 1868. After leaviDg the Regiment he was for a time 
a boot and shoe merchant in Nashville, Tenn. He is now, and has been 
for several j'ears, a well-to-do dealer in musical instruments at Mont- 
gomery, Ala. 

2507 Wessell, Aug., P. Cos. G, I and D, Eng.; e. Nov. 2, 1862, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; a pensioner; disch. Washington, D. C, July 18, 1865, has been in 
the Missouri Hospital for the insane. 
.2508 Wessell, Henry, P. Cos. G, and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 
Mo.; has a pension; ad. Gordonville, ]\Io. 

2509 West, Benj. F., P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. June 24, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2510 West, John W., P. Co. D. 25th; e. Dec. 24, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2511 West, Sam. G., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2512 West, Stephen H., Sergt. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 27, 1861, McGregor, 

Iowa; ad. Lewiston, Me. 

2513 West, Thos. W., P. Co. D, 25th; e. June 24, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2514 Westfall, Wm. W., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 19, 1861, Burlington, 

Iowa; has a pension; ad. Beloit, Wis. 
3515 Westfall, Geo., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 19, 1861, Burlington, Iowa; 
ad. Columbus Junction, Iowa. 

2516 Weston, Chas., Sergt. Co. G, 25th: e. Dec. 18, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2517 Whaleu, Hiram, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 13, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 
3518 Whalen, Pat., P. Cos. G, 25th, L and E, Eng.; e. June 18, 1861, Kansas City, 

Mo. 
2519 Wheeler, Geo. W., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 6, 1861, Hardin, Iowa 
3530 Wheeler, Wm. R., P. Cos. D, 35th, A and B, Eng.; e. July 25, 1862, Atchi- 
son, Kas. 

2521 Whipple, Dan. J., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 26, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

2522 Whipple, Harlow, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Feb. 3, 1862, Oregon, Mo. 

2523 Whipple, Sam. W., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Dec. 24, 1861, Oregon, 

Mo.; ad. same. 

2524 Whipple, Stephen J., P. Co. E, 25th; e. Dec. 24, 1861, Oregon, Mo.; ad. For- 

est City, Mo. 

2525 Whipple, Virgil, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 1, 1861, Oregon, Mo. 

2526 Whiskerson, Peter, P. Co. D, 25th; e. July, 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 
2537 Whisler, Adam, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. Oct. 7, 1861, Wapello, Iowa. 

2528 WHITCOMB, ASHEL D., Sergt. Co. K, Lt. Cos. C, D and I. Capt. Co. 

E, Eng.; e. Sept. 5, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. He is in poor health; draws a 
pension; has been a wagon-maker since the war in Wapello, Iowa. 

2529 White, Geo. A., P. Co. H, 35th; e. Sept. 87, , Iron Co., Mo. 

3530 White, John, P. Co. A, 35th; e. June 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

3531 White, Joseph H., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1861, Prairie City, 111 
3533 White, Marcus L., P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; deserted, 

Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 10, 1863. 

3533 White, Peter (alias), P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Aug. 29, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa; sui- 

cided by shooting with his musket, Sedalia, Mo., Nov., 1861. 

3534 White, Thomas, P. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; ad. 

Soldiers' Home, Leavenworth, Kas. 

3535 White, S., P. Co. , 25th; ad. Dawson, Neb. 

3536 Whitmack, Solomon, P. Co. E, 35th; e. July 3, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. 

Lebanon, Iowa (or Mo.), 
3.537 Whitmarsh, Tim. F., Mus. Cos. land C, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Denmark, 
Iowa; ad. same; pensioned. 

3538 Whitsel, Dan. H., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1863, New Goshen, 

Ind.; disch. dis. 1863. 

3539 Whitten, Albt., P. Co. H, 35th; e. Aug. 14, 1861, Atchison Co., Mo. 

3540 Whitten, Caswell, P. Co. H, 25th; e. Dec. 16, 1861, Nodaway Co., Mo. 

3541 Whitten. Jas., P. Cos. H, 35th. M and E, Eng.; e. Sept. 6, 1863; dead. 
3543 Wickham, Henry, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 30, 1861. St. Louis, Mo. 

3543 Wiggins, Sam.. P. Co. C, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; died St. 
Louis, Mo., Sept. 14, 1861. 



242 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

544 Wilcox, Absalom, Sergt. Cos. E, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. Feb. 27, 1862; ad. 
Yankton, Dak. 

2545 WILCOX, NATHAN W., Lt. Cos. K and G, Capt. Co. D, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 

1861, New London, Iowa; discb. Dec. 25, 1863. 

2546 Wild, John, P. Cos. L, I and D, Eng.; e. . 

2547 Wildberger, Adam, Mus. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861. 

St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. No. 1305 Sylvauia St.; same. 

2548 Wildberger, John, P. Cos. B, L, 25th; e. July 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. 

same. 

2549 Wiley, Andrew F., P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 8, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa: 

ad. Slate Hill, York Co., Pa. 

2550 Wilks, Elijah, P. Cos. A and E, Eng.; e. Aug. 3, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

2551 Wilkins, Wm. J., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 20, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2552 Wilkison, Henry, P. Co. E, 25th; e. Jan. 11, 1862, Oregon, Mo. 

2553 Wilson, Andrew J., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2554 Wilson, Benj. F., P. Cos. K and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 18, 1861, New London, 

Iowa; pensioned; ad. Neligh, Neb. 

2555 Wilson, Dan., P. Co. D, 25tb; e. July 25, 1863, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2556 Wilson, Geo. W., P. Cos. F, C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 12, 1861, Elkport, Iowa. 

2557 Wilson' Harrison, P. Co. D, 25th, e. July 12. 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2558 Wilson, Henry J., P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. July 22, 1861, Holt Co., 

Mo. 

2559 Wilson, Hiram, P. Cos. D, 25th and A, Eng.; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo.; ad. Hall's Station. Mo. 

2560 Wilson, Jas., P. Co. E, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, Adrian. Mich. 

2561 Wilson, John, P. Cos. D, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 27, 1862, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2562 Wilson, Josiah, P. Cos. D, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Dec. 31, 1861, St. Joseph, 

Mo. 

2563 Wilson, Joseph, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2564 Wilson, Wm., P. Cos. D, 25th and A, Eng.; e. July 18, 1861, Andrew Co., 

Mo.; ad. Oakley, Kas. 

2565 Willand Henry, P. Co. G, 25th; e. June 27, 1861, Kansas City, Mo. 

2566 Willard, Murray J., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Aug. 2, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2567 Wille, Henry, P. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. July 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; 

ad. same, 707 Richardson st. 

2568 Willicke, Wm., P. Cos. A and K, Eng.; e. Aug. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo.; ad. same. 

2569 Williams, Chas. H., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Apr. 11, 1863, Inde- 
■— — pendence. Mo. ; ad. same; pensioner. 

2570 Williams, Dennis, P. Cos. K and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 28, 1861, Wapello, Iowa. 

2571 Wiliams, Edward, Sergt. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2572 Williams, Elijah, P. Cos. I and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 23, 1861, Dubuque, Iowa. 

2573 Williams, Jas., Cor. Cos. F and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 11. 1861, Dubuque, Iowa, 

2574 WiUiams, Jas. T., P. Cos. F, 25th, H and D, Eng.; e. Jan. 11, 1868, Inde- 

pendence, Mo. 

2575 Williams, George, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Jan. 10, 1862, Oregon, 

2576 Williams, Lemuel, P. Cos. A, 25th and M and E, Eng. ; e. June 10, 1863, Clay 

Co Mo 

2577 Willis, John F., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. March 6, 1862, St. Louis, 

2578 Willis Thomas, P. Co. D, 25th; e. March 8, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2579 WINEGAR, ELI, Lt. Cos. K. I and C, Eng.; e. Oct. 3, 1861; disch. Oct. 

31, 1864; dead; supposed to have been killed in Tennessee by guerrillas in 

2580 WineVar. Samuel, P. Cos. L and I, Eng.; e. ; dead. 

2581 Winegardner, Peter, P. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2582 WinnT David, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eug.; e. Dec. 15. 1861, Gentry Co., 

2583 Winn.Ruel L., P. Co. C, 25th; e. Dec. 15, 1861, Gentry Co., Mo. 



TfiE ROSTER. 243 

2584 Wise, Daniel L., Sergt. Cos. H, Band C, Eng.; e. Aug. 25, 1862, Bloom- 

field, 111.; ad. Cherry Point, 111. 

2585 Witkam, Aug., P. Cos. L, I and D, Eug.;e. June 3, 1862. 

2586 Witzel. Wm., P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 26, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2587 Wolfe, Jacob A., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, Vermillion, 111.; 

ad. Sandford, Ind. 

2588 Wolfe, Josiah W. D., P. Cos. H, D and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 12, 1862, Sandford, 

Ind.; ad. same; a pensioner. 

2589 Wolfe, Simon, P.CosfH, DandC, Eng.; e. Aug.l2, 1862, Sandford, Ind.; dead. 

2590 Wolfkulil, Henry, P. Cos. G and I, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, 

Mo. 

2591 Wollestadt, Carl, P. Cos. L and I. Eng. ; e. . 

2592 Woodeach, Thos. D., P. Co. — , 25th and B, Eng.; e. July 15, 1862. 

2593 Woodcock, Thos., P. Co. D, 25th; e. Jan. 13, 1862, Andrew Co., Mo. 

2594 Wood, Aaron, P. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng. ; e. Dec. 12, 1861; ad. Westbro, 

Mo.; pensioner. 

2595 WOOD, CHAS. C, Lt. Co. I, Eng.; e. Nov. 7, 1862. 

2596 Wood, Benj. G., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Auir. 12, 1862, New Goshen, Ind. 

2597 Wood, Wm., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 19, 1861, St. -Joseph, Mo. 

2598 Woods. Albt. J., P. Cos. C and B, Eug.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

ad. Vinelaud, Kas. 

2599 Woods, Ira M., P. Cos. Cand B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Avon, 111.; ad. same 

2600 Woods, Isaac, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Aug. 4, 1861, Avon, 111.; ad. Vine 

land, Kas. 

2601 Woods. Isaac W., P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

ad. Lav/rence, Kas.; is pensioned. 

2602 Woods, Wm. C, P. Cos. C and B, Eng.; e. Sept. 16, 1861, Prairie City, 111. 

2603 Woodruff. Allen D., P. Cos. K, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Feb. 4, 1862, Ham- 

mond, N. Y. 

2604 Woodruff, Wm. H., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

draws a pension; ad. Nevins, 111. 

2605 Woody, Geo. W., P. Co. K, Eug.; e. Sept. 10, 1861, Prairie City, 111.; a pen- 

sioner; ad. Galesburg, 111. 

2606 Woody, — , P. Co. H, 25th; e. Dec. 21, 18^1, ^Nodaway Co., Mo. 

2607 Worden, Luther B., P. Co. F, Eng.; e. Oct. 18, 1861, Bloomington, 111.; 

died Jackson, Tenn., July, 1862. 

2608 Worley, Wm., P. Co. B. Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2609 Winkler, Chas., Mus. Co. B. 25th; e. June 13, 1801, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2610 Winkler, Gottleib, P. Co. G, Eng.; e. Sept. 13, 1861, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

2611 Wright, John W., P. Cos. H and D, Eng.; e. Axjg. 7, 1861, St. Louis, Mo. 

2612 Wright, Woodford, P. Cos. B, K and A, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111.; 

is a pensioner; ad. Quaker City, Ohio. 

2613 Wykoff, Norman L., Sergt. Cos. A, 25th. M and E, Eng.; e. July 11, 1861, 

Macon Co., Mo.; promoted Lt.. June 12, 1865; ad. Howland, Mo. 

2614 Wyman, Francis M., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12. 1862, Doniphan Co., Kas. 

2615 WARD. J. 1).. Lt. R. Q. M.. Eno-.; e. Sept. 15, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; res. 

Jan. 13. 1862. 

2616 WRIUHT, ALPHA, Chap., 25th; e. Dec. 31, 1862; disch. Jan. 1, 1864. 

2617 Whitson,— , Cor. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20,1861, St. Louis, Mo.; killed in 

skirmish at Tuscumbia River, June 1, 1862. 

2618 Yard, Marion H., P. Cos. A, 25th, M and E, Eng.; e. vet., Jan. 28, 1864; ad. 

Norbnrne, Mo. 

2619 Yarnall. John S., Cor. Cos. D and C, Eng.; e. Aug. 15, 1861, Flora, 111.; 

draws a pension; ad. Exeter, Barry Co., Mo. 

2620 Yeakley, Mich. W., P. Co. D, 25th; e. March 1, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo.: ad. 

same. 

2621 Yocum, Jewett, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Nov. 20. 1861. 

2622 Yocum, Miner, P. Co. C, 25th; e. Nov. 20, 1861. 

2623 York, Jas. A., P. Co. D, 25th; e. July 12, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo.; ad. Rock- 

port (or Lathrop), Mo. 

2624 Young, Andrew J., Cor. Cos. E, 25th, G and C, Eng.; e. Sept. 21, 1862, 

Atchison Co., Mo.: ad. Phelps City, Kas. 

2625 Young, August, P. Co. B, 25th; e. June 13, 1861. St. Joseph, :Mo. 



244 THE FIRST MISSOURI ENGINEERS. 

2626 Young, Chas., P. Co. D, 25th; e. March 1,1862, Doniphan Co., Kas 

.2627 Young, Fenton, P. Co. K, Eng.; e. April 12, 1861, Burlington, Iowa. 

2628 Young, Chas. A., P. Co. A, 25th; e. Jan. 30, 1862, San Francisco, Cal. 

2629 Young, Henry, P. Co. A, 25th; e. June 14, 1861, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2630 Young, Lewis, Sergt. Co. A, Eng.; e. July 20, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.; promoted 

Lt. Colored Troops in 1863. 

2631 Young, Robert, P. Co. A, 25th; e. Jan. 8, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2632 Young, Thomas E., P. Cos. B and K, Eng.; e. July 28, 1861, Paris, 111. 

2633 Zink, Jacob, P. Cos. C, 25th, A and B, Eng.; e. Feb. 10, 1862, St. Joseph, Mo. 

2634 Zones, John W., P. Co. D, 25th: e. Aug. 2, 1861, De Kalb Co., Mo. 

2635 Zweig, Fred., P. Cos. L, land D, Eng.; ad. Columbia, 111. 

2636 Zenner, John, Sergt. Cos. B, 25th and L, Eng.; e. June 13, 1861, St. Joseph^ 

Mo. 



ADDENDA. 




WHAT OTHER PARTS OF THE ARMY WERE DOING. 

^O give a better understanding of the part taken 
by the Missouri Engineer Regiment in the late 
war we add from descriptions pubhshed, orders 
and diaries written during the war; the operations 
and achievements of the armies as a whole with 
whom we served ; omitting entirely operations 
where we were not present. 



A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 

The battle of Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh, was one of the 
most desperate conflicts ever known in history, and the most severe 
and hardest fought battle of the Rebellion, as well as, up to that 
time, the most decisive of the war. With overwhelming numbers 
opposing them, and surprised as they were by the enemy, it Avas 
onh^ bv the bravest and most stubborn fighting, that the Union 
troops gained this most splendid victory. And, although the tide 
seemed turned against them during the early part of the battle, 
everything seemed to favor them on the second day; and after two 
days' fighting they had regained all they had lost, and driven back 
and conquered the Rebels. 

The troops engaged in this battle were the Divisions of Prentiss, 
Sherman and McClernand, who were in advance, and Hurlbut's and 
Smith's, the latter under command of General W. H. L. Wallace. 
Hurlbut's and Wallace's Divisions were stationed between the Ten- 
nessee River and the others. On the second day, these were joined 
by the Divisions of Generals Lewis Wallace, Nelson, Crittenden 
and McCook, 

On the evening of the fourth of April, the enemy made a 
reconnoissance with two of their regiments, and, after a slight skir- 
mish, retired, as their forces under Price and Van Dorn had not yet 
arrived. Although the Generals commanding the Rebel army had 

245 



246 ADDENDA. 

fixed upon the fifth of April for the day of attack, they resolved to 
wait one day longer, until their re-enforcements should arrive. This 
gave General Buell time to reach Grant, and, without doubt, saved 
the country from a terrible disaster which must have been the 
result, had his re-enforcemeuts failed to arrive. Johnson and 
Beauregard were aware that Buell was advancing from Nashville, 
to join Grant, and for this reason at first resolved to attack him 
before Buell should arrive. 

Just at break of day, on Sunday morning, the 6th of April, 
the pickets of Prentiss and Sherman were driven in by the enemy, 
and the Rebels were almost instantlv in our camp. They found the 
troops entirely unprepared for anything like an attack. The offi- 
cers and men were scattered about, some still in their beds, some 
dressing, and some eating their breakfast, — and none in readiness 
for their early and unexpected visitors. 

The five Divisions stationed at this point were hurriedly drawn 
up in line of battle, and, without a moment's preparation, met the 
enemy. Many of the regiments were new troops, their officers inex- 
perienced, and many of them became panic-stricken. General Pren- 
tiss, and the greater part of his Division, were at this time taken 
prisoners. Sherman used all his energies to rally his men. Riding 
along the lines, encouraging them, and exposing his own life, he did 
much to save the Division from utter destruction. Although our forces 
returned their fire most vigorously, our men were driven back from 
their camp. The enemy, bringing up a fresh force, opened fire 
upon our left wing, under General McClernand. Along the whole 
line, for a distance of over four miles, this fire was returned with 
terrible effect, by both Infantry and Artillery. 

General Hurlbut's division was then brought forward, and a 
most desperate conflict ensued. The Rebels were first driven back 
with great loss of life, but rallied, and in turn, drove our men back. 
The Rebel forces, commanded by able generals, were handled 
with a skill that drew admiration from all, and although repulsed 
again and again, t'hey continued sending fresh troops to the front, 
and again bent their energies to the work. 

Late in the afternoon, the most desperate fighting that had 
occurred during the entire day, took place. The Rebels undoubtedly 
thought that if they failed in defeating us on that day, that their 
chances for success would be doubtful, as a part of General Buell's 
army had arrived on the opposite side of the river. The Rebels 
could see the reenforcements from the river bank, and to this place 



A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 247 

they directed their attention. The Union troops were, indeed, con- 
tending against fearful odds, their army numbering about thirty- 
eight thousand men, while that of the Rebels exceeded sixty thou- 
sand. 

Many of the panic-stricken, and the skulkers, were gathered 
near the river, and no appeals from their oiRcers could rally them. 

General Lewis Wallace's Division, which was at Crump's Land- 
ing, was ordered up in the morning, but bemg led by a circuitous 
route, failed to reach the scene of action until night. 

About 5 o'clock p. m., the Rebels occupied about two-thirds of 
the Union camps, and were constantly driving them towards the 
river. Toward evening the gunboats Lexington and Tylor, which 
had lain idle spectators during the day's fearful contest, seeking in 
vain for an opportunity to bring their guns to bear upon the enemy, 
commenced raining shells upon the rebel hordes. The boats fired 
rapidly and well ; and with the incessant clash of guns, on land, and 
the crash and roar of shells from the boats, that Sabbath evening 
wore away. 

The men lay on their arms during the night in line of battle. 
Buell and Lew Wallace would be there, and ready to assist them in 
the morning, for all through the night Buell's men were marching 
up from Savannah, and were being ferried across, or were coming 
upon transports ; and Wallace's Division had arrived in the evening, 
and would be in readiness ere the morning dawned. A heavv thun- 
der storm came up about midnight, drenching the two armies, but 
proving a most excellent dressing for the wounds of the many who 
were suffering on that bloody field. 

At daylight on the morning of the 7th of April, the two 
divisions of Nelson and Crittenden advanced upon the enemy. 
Lew Wallace's Division commenced the battle by an artillery fire 
upon a battery of the enemy, causing them to retreat. Nelson's 
troops were in the advance, and the fighting was most desperate, 
continuallv driving back the Rebels. The fire soon became general 
along the whole line, — Crittenden following close to Nelson, and 
next to him McCook. Generals Sherman's, McClernand's and 
Huribut's men, although terribly jnded from the previous day's 
fighting, came up, and gallantly added new laurels to those already 
won. 

But the Rebels resisted at every point ; they felt that all depended 
upon a most desperate effort on their part, and their generals urged 
them on, thinking to flank us on the right, and thus gain the day. 



248 



ADDENDA. 



Success seemed theirs for a time, but our left under Xelson, was 
dividing them, and by eleven o'clock, General BuelPs forces had 
succeeded in flanking them, and capturing their batteries. The Rebels 
again rallied, but some regiments from Wood's and Thomas' coming 
in just then, were sent to General Buell. who a^ain drove the enemv 
back. About three o'clock in the afternoon, General Grant, at the 
head of five regiments of Cavalry, ordered a charge across the field, 
himself commanding. The men followed with a shout, and the 
Eebels fled in dismay, and did not make another stand. The retreat- 
ing Eebels were followed by Buell, and by half-past five, their whole 
army was retreating toward Corinth. 

The main armv, well niffh worn out with hard fiofhtino;', o-ladlv 
welcomed the close of this victorious dsij. On the following morn- 
ing, General Sherman started forward with the remainder of his 
Division, in pursuit. He met the enemy's Cavalry on the road to 
Corinth, where a sharp skirmish ensued, and he drove them from the 
field with the loss of several killed and wounded. 

General Grant, in his official report of the battle of Pittsljurg 
Landing, savs : " I feel it a dutv to a gallant and able officer, Bri^a- 
dier General W. T. Sherman, to make special mention. He not only 
was with his command during the entire two davs of the action, 
but displayed great judgment and skill in the management of his 
men ; although severely wounded in the hand, on the first day, his 
place was never vacant. He was again wounded, and had three 
horses killed under him. General Prentiss was taken prisoner on 
the first day's battle, and General W. H. L. Wallace was mortally 
wounded." 

From General Sherman's report we learn, that on Friday, the 4th 
instant, the enemy's Cavalry drove in his pickets, posted about a 
mile and a-half in advance of his center, on the main Corinth Road, 
capturing one lieutenant, and seven men ; that he ordered a pursuit 
by the Cavalry of his Division, driving them back about five miles, 
and killing many. On Saturday, the enemy's Cavalry was again very 
bold, coming well down to their front, yet it was tiiought that he 
designed nothing but a strong demonstration. On Sunda}^ morning, 
early, the 6th instant, the enemy drove our advance guard back on 
the main body, when General Sherman ordered under arms, all his 
Division, and sent word to General McClernand, asking him to sup- 
port his left ; to General Prentiss, giving him notice that the enemy 
was in our front, in force, and to General Hurlbut, asking him to 
support General Prentiss. At this time, sev^en a. m.^ Sherman's 
Division was arranaed as follows : 








CAPTAIN B. F. BUZARD, CO. K, Soth H. and D. ENGINEERS. 




LIEUTENANT PAULl'S GAST, COS. G and I. 



A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 249 

First Brigade, composed of the Sixth Iowa, Colonel J. A. 
McDowell ; Fortieth Illinois, Colonel Hicks ; Forty-sixth Ohio, 
Colonel Worthington; and the Norton Battery, Captain Behr, on 
the extreme left, guarding the bridge on the Purdy Road, over Owl 
Creek. 

Second Brigade, composed of the Fifty-fifth Illinois, Colonel D. 
Stuart ; Fifty-fourth Ohio, Colonel T. Kilby Smith ; and the Seventy- 
first Ohio, Colonel Mason, on the extreme left, guarding the ford 
over Lick Creek. 

Third Brigade, composed of the Seventy-seventh Ohio, Colonel 
Hildebrand ; Fifty-third Ohio, Colonel Appier ; and the Fifty- 
seventh Ohio, Colonel Mungen, on the left of the Corinth Road, its 
rio-ht resting on Shiloh Meeting-house. 

Fourth Brigade, composed of the Seventy-second Ohio, Colonel 
Buckland ; Forty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Sullivan ; and the Seventeenth 
Ohio, Colonel Cockerill, on the right of the Corinth Road, its left 
resting on Shiloh Meeting-house. 

T'.vo batteries of Artillery, Ta3dor's and Waterhouse's, were 
posted, the former at Shiloh, and the latter on a ridge to the left, 
v/ith a front fire over open ground between Mungen's and Appier's 
Regiments. The Cavalry, eight companies of the Fourth Illinois, 
under Colonel Dickey, were posted in a large open field to the left 
and rear of Shiloh Meeting-house, which Sherman regarded as the 
centre of his position. Shortly after seven a. m., with his entire 
staff, Sherman rode along a portion of our front, and when in the 
open field before Appier's Regiment, the enemy's pickets opened a 
brisk fire on his party, killing his orderly, Thomas D. Hollister, of 
Company H, Second Illinois Cavalry. The fire came from the bushes 
which line a small stream that rose in the field in front of Appier's 
camp, and flows to the north along the whole front of the place 
where this Division was located. This valley afforded the enemy 
cover, but our men were so posted as to have a good fire at him as 
he crossed the vallev and ascended the rising- oround on our side. 

About eight a. m. the glistenmg bayonets of heavy masses of 
Rebel Infantry could be seen to our left front, in the woods beyond 
the small stream alluded to, and Sherman became satisfied for the 
first time that the enemy designed a determined attack on our 
whole camp. All the regiments in his Division were then in line of 
battle, at their proper posts. Sherman rode to Colonel Appier, and 
ordered him to hold his ground at all hazards, as he held the left 
fiank of our first line of battle, and he had a good battery on his 



250 ADDENDA. 

right and strong support in his rear. General McClernand had 
promptly and energetically responded to Sherman's request, and 
had sent him three regiments, which were posted to protect Water- 
house's battery and the left flank of Sherman's line. The battle 
began by the enemy opening battery in the woods to our front, 
and throwing shell into our camp. 

Taylor's and Waterhouse's batteries promptly responded, and 
the heavy battalions of Infantry could be seen passing obliquely to 
the left across tjie open field in Appier's front; also other columns 
advancing directly upon Sherman's Division. The Union infantry 
and Artillery opened fire along the whole line, and the battle became 
general. Other heavy masses of the enemy's forces kept passing 
across the field to their left, and directing their course on General 
Prentiss. Sherman saw at once that the enemy designed to pass 
his left flank, and fall upon Generals McClernand and Prentiss, 
whose line of camps was almost parallel with the Tennessee Piver, 
and about two miles back from it. Yery soon the sound of mus- 
ketry and artillery announced that General Prentiss was engaged, 
and about 9 a. m. he began to fall back. About this time Appier's 
Regiment broke in disorder; Mungen's Regiment followed, and the 
enemy pressed forward on "Waterhouse's battery thereby exposed. 
The three Illinois Regiments in immediate support of this battery, 
stood for some time, but the enemy's advance was vigorous, and the 
fire so severe that when Colonel Raith, of the Forty-third Illinois 
received a severe wound, and fell from his horse, his regiment and 
the others manifested disorder and the enemj'' got possession of 
three guns of this (Waterhouse's) battery. Although our left was 
thus turned, and the enemy was pressing our whole line, Sherman 
deemed Shiloh so important that he remained by it, and renewed 
his orders to Colonels McDowell and Buckland to hold their ground; 
and these positions were held until 10 o'clock a. m., when the 
enemy had got his Artiller}'^ to the rear of our left flank, and some 
change became absolutely necessary. Two regiments of Hild- 
e brand's Brigade (Appier's and Mungen's) had already disappeared 
to the rear, and Hildebrand's own Regiment was in disorder. Sher- 
man, therefore, gave orders for Taylor's battery, still at Shiloh, to 
fall back as far as the Purdy and Hamburg Road, and for McDowell 
and Buckland to adopt that road as their new line. He rode across 
the angle and met Behr's battery at the cross roads, and ordered it 
immediately to come into battery, action right. Captain Behr 
gave the order, but was almost instantly shot from his horse, when 



A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 251 

drivers and gunners fled in dismay, carrying off the caissons, and 
abandoning five out of six guns without firing a shot. The enemy 
pressed on, gaining this battery, and the Union troops were again 
forced to choose a hne of defense. Hildebrand's Brigade had sub- 
stantially disappeared from the field, though he himself bravely 
remained. McDowell's and Buckland's Brigades maintained their 
organization, and were conducted by Sherman's aids so as to join 
on McClernand's right, thus abandoning the original camps and line 
of Sherman. 

This was about 10 o'clock a. m., at which time the enemy 
made a furious attack on General McClernand's whole front. He 
struggled most desperatelv, but finding him pressed, McDowell's 
Brigade was moved directly against the left flank of the enemy, 
forcing him back some distance, and the men were directed to avail 
themselves of ever}^ cover — trees, fallen timber, and a wooded valley 
to our right. This position they held for four long hours, sometimes 
gaining and at other times losing ground. Generals McClernand and 
Sherman acting in perfect concert and struggling to maintain this line. 
While they were so hard pressed two Iowa Regiments approached 
from the rear, but could not be brought up to the severe fire that 
was racking in our front. At 4 p. m. it was evident that Hurl- 
but's line had been driven back to the river, and knowing that Gen- 
eral Wallace was coming with reenforcements from Crump's Land- 
ing, Sherman and McClernand, on consultation, selected a new line 
of defense, wMth its right wing covering a bridge by w^iich General 
Wallace had to approach. 

The Union troops fell back as well as the}' could, gathering, in 
addition to their own, such scattered forces as they could find, and 
formed the new line. Durino: this chano-e the eneniA'' charged them, 
but were handsomely repulsed by an Illinois Regiment. 

The Fifth Ohio Cavalry, which had come up, rendered good ser- 
vice in holding the enemy in check for sometime, and Major Taylor 
also came up with a new battery, and got into position just in time 
to get a good flank fire upon the enemy's column as he pressed on 
General Mc'Clernand's right, checking his advance, when General 
McClernand's Division made a fine charge on the enemy, and drove 
him back into the ravines to our front and right. Sherman had a 
clear field about two hundred yards wide in his immediate front, and 
contented himself with keeping the enemy's Infantry at that distance 
during the day. In this position his army rested for the night. His 
command had become decidedlv of a mixed character. Buckland's 



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Brigade was the only one that retained organization. Colonel Hil- 
debrand was personall}^ there, but his Brigade was not. Colonel 
McDowell had been severely injured by a fall from his horse, and 
had gone to the river, and the three regiments of his Brigade were 
not in line. 

The Thirteenth Missouri, Colonel Crafts J. Wright, had 
reported to Sherman on the field, and fought well, retaining its 
regimental organization, and formed a part of his line during 
Sunday night and all day Monday. Other fragments of regiments 
and companies had also fallen into his Division, and acted with it 
during the remainder of the battle. 

Generals Grant and Buell visited Sherman in his bivouac that 
evening, and from them he learned the situation in the other parts 
of the field. General Wallace arrived from Crump's Landing 
shortly after dark, and formed his line to the right and rear of 
Sherman. It rained hard during the night, but our men were in 
good spirits, and lay on their arms, being satisfied with such bread 
and meat as could be gathered at the neighboring camps, and 
determined to redeem on Monday the losses of Sunday. 

At daybreak of Monday Sherman received General Grant's 
orders to advance and recapture their original camps. He dispatched 
several members of his staff to bring up all the men they could find, 
and especially the Brigade of Colonel Stuart, which had been sepa- 
rated from the Division the day before ; and at the appointed time 
the Division, or what remained of it, with the Thirteenth Missouri 
and other fragments of regiments, moved forward and occupied the 
ground on the extreme right of General McClernand's camp, where 
tiiey attracted the fire of a Kebel battery near Colonel McDowell's 
former headquarters. Here Sherman remained awaiting for the 
sound of General Buell's advance upon the main Corinth Road. 
About 10 o'clock a. m. the firing in this direction, and its steady 

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approach, satisfied him ; and General Wallace being on his right, 
flanked with his well-conducted Division, Sherman led the head of 
his column to General McClernand's right, formed in line of battle 
facing south, with Buckland's Brigade directly across the ridge, 
and Stuart's Brigade on its right, in the woods, and thus advanced 
steadily and slowly, under a heavv fire of musketry and artillery. 
Taylor had just come up from the rear, where he had gone for 
ammunition, and brought up three guns, which Sherman ordered into 
position to advance by hand-firing. These guns belonged to Com- 
pany x\, Chicago Light Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant P. P. 



A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH, 253 

Wood, and did most excellent service. Under cover of their fire, 
the troops advanced until they reached the point where the Corinth 
Road crosses the line of General McClernand's camp'; and here was 
seen the well-ordered and compact Kentucky forces of General Buell, 
whose soldierly movement alone gave confidence to our new and 
less disciplined forces, Willich's regiment advancing upon a point of 
water oaks and thicket, behind which the enemy was in great 
strength, and entered it in beautiful style. Then arose some of the 
most severe musketry firing ever heard, lasting twenty minutes, 
when this splendid regiment had to fall back. This green point of 
timber is about five hundred yards east of Shiloh Meeting-house, and 
it was evident that there was to be the struggle. The enemy could 
also be seen forming his line to the south. General McClernand 
sending to Sherman for Artillery, he detached to him the three guns 
of Wood's battery, with which he speedily drove them back ; and 
seeing some others in the rear, Sherman sent one of his staff to 
bring them forward, when,by almost Providential decree, they proved 
to be two twenty-four pounder Howitzers, belonging to McAllis- 
ter's Battery, and served as well as guns ever could be. This was 
about 2 p. M. The enemy had one Battery close by Shiloh, and 
another near the Hamburg Road, both pouring grape and 
cannister upon any column of troops that advanced upon the 
green point of water oaks. Willich's Regiment had been 
repulsed ; but a whole Brigade of McCook's Division advanced, 
beautifully deployed, and entered this dreaded wood. Sherman 
ordered his Second Brigade, then commanded by Colonel Kilby 
Smith (Colonel Stuart being wounded), to form on its right, and his 
Fourth Brigade, Colonel Buckland, on its right — all to advance with 
the Kentucky Brigade before mentioned (Rousseau's Brigade of 
McCook's Division), He gave personal direction to the twenty-four 
pounder guns, whose well-directed fire silenced the enemy's guns to 
the left, and afterward at the Shiloh Meeting-house. Rousseau's 
Brigade moved in splendid order steadily to the front, sweeping 
everything before it, and at 4 p. m. the Union troops stood upon the 
ground of their original front line, and the enemy was in full 
retreat. Sherman directed his several Brigades to resume at once 
their original camp. 

General McCook's splendid Division from Kentucky drove back 
the enemy along the Corinth Road, which was the great center of 
the field of battle, and where Beauregard commanded in person, 
supported by Bragg's, Polk's and Breckinridge's Divisions. Johnson 



254 ADDENDA. 

was killed by exposing himself in front of his troops at the time of 
their attack on Buckland's Brigade on Sunday morning. 

Sherman's Division was made up of regiments perfectly new, all 
having received their muskets for the first time at Paducah. None 
of them had ever been under fire, and to expect the coolness and 
steadiness of older troops would be wrong. They knew not the 
value of combination and organization. When individual fear seized 
them, the first impulse was to get away. His third Brigade broke 
much sooner than it should have done. Colonel llildebrand, its 
commander, was as cool as man could be, and no one could have 
made stronger efforts to hold his men to their places than he did. 
He kept his own Begiment, with individual exceptions, in hand an 
hour after Appier's and Mungen's Kegiments had left their proper 
field of action. Colonel Buckland managed his Brigade well. 
General Sherman commended him to General Grant as a cool, intel- 
ligent and judicious man, who needed only confidence and expe- 
rience to make a good commander. His subordinates, Colonels 
Sullivan and Cockerill, behaved with great gallantry, the former 
receiving a severe wound on Sunday, and yet commanding and 
holding his Regiment well in hand all day, and on Monday until his 
right arm was broken by a shot. Cockerill held a larger proportion 
of his men than any Colonel in Sherman's Division, and was with 
him from first to last. Colonel J. H. McDowell, comniantling the 
First Brigade, held his ground on Sunday until ordered to fall back, 
which he did in line of battle, and when ordered he conducted the 
attack on the enemy's left in good style. In falling back to the 
next position he was thrown from his horse and injured, and his 
Brigade was not in position on Monday morning. His subordinates, 
Colonels Hicks and Worthington, displayed great personal courage. 
Colonel Hicks led his Regiment in the attack on Sunday, and received 
a severe wound. Lieutenant-Colonel Walcutt, of the Ohio Forty- 
sixth, was severely wounded on Sunday. Sherman's Second Bri- 
gade, Colonel Stuart, was detached nearl}^ two miles, from head- 
quarters. He had to fight his own battle on Sunday against superior 
numbers, as the enemy interposed between him and General Pren- 
tiss early in the day. Colonel Stuart was wounded severely, and 
yet reported for duty on Monday morning. He was com]>elled to 
leave during the day, when the command devolved on Colonel 
Kilby Smith, who was always in the thickest of the fight, and led 
the Brigade handsomely. Lieutenant-Colonel Kyle, of the Seventy- 
first, was mortally wounded on Sunday. 



A GENEEAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 255 

Several times during the battle cartridges gave out, but General 
Grant had thoughtful]}^ kept a supply coming from the rear. 
General Sherman commended the Fortieth Illinois and Thirteenth 
Missouri for steadfastly holding their ground under heavy fire, 
although their cartridge-boxes were empty. 

At the time of recovering their camps, the men were so fatigued 
that they could not follow the retreating masses of the enemy, but 
on the next day Sherman followed them up for six miles. 

The Cavalry kept to the rear, and took little part in the action, 
but it would have been madness to have exposed horses to the 
musketr}^ fire, under which they were compelled to remain from 
Sunday at 8 a. m. till Monday at ■! p. m. 

General Buell, Colonel Fiy, and others of General Buell's staff, 
rode up to General Sherman about sunset, about the time General 
Grant was leaving. General Buell asked many questions, and got a 
small map, and said that by daylight he could have 18,000 fresh 
men, which would settle the matter. 

I understood Grant's forces were to advance on the right of the 
Corinth Road and Buell's on the left, and accordingly at daylight I 
advanced my Division by the flank, the resistance being trivial, up 
to the very spot where the day before the battle had been most 
severe, and tiien waited till near noon for Buell's troops to get up 
abreast, \vhen the entire line advanced and recovered all the ground 
we^had ever held. I know that, with the exception of one or two 
severe struggles, the fighting of April 7th was easy, as compared 
with that of April 6th. 

I never was disposed, nor am I now, to question anything done 
by General Buell and his army, and know that, approaching our 
field of battle from the rear, he encountered that sickening crowd 
of laggards and fugitives that excited his contempt and that of his 
army, who never gave full credit to those in the front line, who did 
fight hard, and who had, at 4 p. m., checked the enemy, and were 
preparing the next day to'assume the off"ensive. I remember the 
fact better from General Grant's anecdote of his Donelson battle, 
which he told me then for the first time — that, at a certain period 
of the battle, he saw that either was ready to give way if the other 
showed a bold front, and he determined to do that very thing, to 
advance on the enemy when, as he prognosticated, the enemy sur- 
rendered. At 4 p. M. of April 6th he thought the appearance the 
same, and he judged, with Lew Wallace's fresh Division and such of 
our startled troops as had recovered their equilibrium, he would be 



256 ADDENDA. 

justified in dropping the defensive and assuming the offensive in the 
morning. And I repeat, I received such orders before I knew 
General BuelFs troops were at the river, I admit that I was glad 
that Buell was there, because I knew his troops Avere older than 
ours, and better s^^stematized and drilled, and his arrival made that 
certain which before was uncertain. I have heard this question 
much discussed, and must say that the officers of Buell's army dwelt 
too much on the stampede of some of our raw troops, and gave us 
too little credit for the fact that for one whole day, AA^eakened as we 
were by the absence of Buell's army, long expected ; of Lew Wal- 
lace's Division, only four miles off, and of the fugitives from our 
ranks, we had beaten off our assailants for the time. At the same 
time our Army of the Tennessee have indulged in severe criticism 
at the slow approach of that army which knew the danger that 
threatened us from the concentrated armies of Johnson, Beaure- 
gard and Bragg that lay at Corinth. In a Avar like this, Avhere 
opportunities of personal prowess are as plenty as blackberries to 
those who^eek them at the front, all such criminations should be 
froAvned doAvn ; and were it not for the military character of your 
journal I Avould not venture to offer a correction of a very popular 
error. 

Another A^ery common mistake is in attributing to General 
Grant the selection of that battlefield. It was chosen by that vet- 
eran soldier, Major-General Charles F. Smith, Avho ordered Sher- 
man's Division to disembark there and strike for the Charleston 
Railroad. This order Avas subsequently modified by his ordering 
Hurlbut's Division to disembark there, and Sherman's higher up the 
Tennessee to the mouth of YelloAV Creek, to strike the railroad at 
Burnsville. But floods prevented our reaching the railroad, Avhen 
General Smith ordered Sherman in person also to disembark at 
Pittsburg, and take posts well out, so as to make plenty of room, 
Avith Snake and Lick Creeks the flanks of a camp for the Grand 
Army of Invasion. 

It Avas General Smith Avho selected that field of battle, and it 
AA^as well chosen. On any other Ave surely AA^ould have been oA^er- 
Avhelmed,as both Lick and Snake Creeks forced the eneni}^ to confine 
his movements to a direct front attack, Avhich ncAv troops are better 
qualified to resist than Avhere flanks are exposed to a real or chimeri- 
cal danger. Even the Divisions of that Army Avere arranged in 
that camp by General Smith's orders, Sherman's Division forming, as 
it were, the outlying picket, Avhilst McClernand's and Prentiss' were 



GRAND MOVEMENT BY RIGHT FLANK TO JONESBORO'. 257 

the real line of battle, with W. H, L. Wallace in support of the right 
wing, and Hurlbutof theleft — Lew Wallace's Division being detached. 
All these subordinate dispositions were made by the order of Gen- 
eral Smith before General Grant succeeded him to the command of 
all the forces up the Tennessee— headquarters, Savannah. If there 
was any error in puting that army on the west side of the Tennes- 
see, exposed to the superior force of the enemy also assembling at 
Corinth, the mistake was not General Grant's — but there was no 
mistake. It was neccessarv that a combat, fierce and bitter, to test 
the manhood of the two armies, should come off, and that was as 
good a place as any. It was not then a question of military skill 
and strategy, but of courage and pluck. Every life lost to us that 
day was necessar}^ for otherwise, at Corinth, at Memphis, at Vicks- 
burg, we would have found harder resistance had we not shown 
our enemies that, rude and untutored as we then were, we could 
fight as well as they. 

Nearly all the new troops that at Shiloh drew from General 
Sherman official censui-e have more than redeemed their good 
name. 

THE GEAND MOVEMENT BY THE EIGHT FLANK TO 

JONESBOEO'. 

Sherman became satisfied that, to reach the Macon Eoad, and 
thereby control the supplies for Atlanta, he would be compelled to 
move the whole army. Before beginning this movement, he ordered 
from Chattanooga, four 4|^-inch rifled guns, to try their effect on the 
city of Atlanta. These guns arrived on the 10th, and were put to 
work day and night, and did execution on the city, causing frequent 
fires, and creating confusion ; yet the enemy seemed determined to 
hold his forts, even if the city was destroyed. On the 16th of 
August, Sherman issued his orders, prescribing the mode and manner 
of executing the grand movement by the right flank, to begin on 
the 18th. 

This movement contemplated the withdrawal of the Twentieth 
Corps, General Williams, to the intrenched position at Chattahoo- 
chee Bridge, and the march of the main army to the West Point 
Eailroad, near Fairburn, and afterward to the Macon Eoad, at or 
near Jonesboro', with Avagons loaded with provisions for fifteen 
days. About the time of the publication of the orders referred to 
above, Sherman learned that Wheeler, with a large mounted force, 



258 ADDENDA. 

variously estimated from 6,000 to 10,000 men, had passed around by 
the east and north, and had made his appeai'ance on our lines of 
communication near Adairsville, and had succeeded in capturing 200 
of our beef cattle, and had made a break in the railroad near 
Calhoun. This was just such a movement as Sherman desired. He 
had made ample preparations for such a contingency, and this move- 
ment left him superior to the enemy in Cavalry. Sherman sus- 
pended the execution of his orders for the time being, and ordered 
General Kilpatiick to make up a well-a])pointed force of about 5,000 
Cavalry, and move from his camp about Sandtown, during the night 
of the ISth, to the West Point Head. This force started as ordered, 
and pushed on to Fairbnrn, on the West Point Railroad, where it 
met the enemy and drove liim from the ground. Kilpatrick then 
moved on to Jonesboro', where he did considerable damage, and 
then rested his force for the night near Lovejoy's. He succeeded in 
destroying about three miles of the Macon Railroad and one train 
of cars. The enemy attempted to surround his force and capture 
them, but they succeeded in cutting their way through their ranks, 
and moved onward. They crossed the Cotton River on the morn- 
ing of the 21st, and reached Lithonia, on the Georgia Railroad, east 
of Atlanta, in the evening of the same day. After resting for the 
night, the expedition joined the main arm\^ on the following morn- 
ing. 

After an interview with General Kilpatrick, Sherman was sat- 
isfied that whatever damage he had done would not produce the 
result desired. He therefore renewed his orders for tlie movement 
of the whole army. This, of course, involved the necessity of raising 
thesieo-e of Atlanta, taking the field with our main force, and using it 
aoainst its intrenchments. All the army commanders were at once 
notified to send their surplus wagons, incumbrances of all kinds, 
and sick, back to the "intrenched position at the bridge, and that 
the movement would begin on the night of the 25th. 

Accordingly, all things being ready, the Fourth Corps, General 
Stanley, drew out of its lines on the extreme left, and marched to a 
position below Proctor's Creek. The Twentieth Cor))s, General 
Williams, moved back to the Chattahoochee. This movement was 
made without loss, save a few things left in camp by thoughtless 
officers or men. On the night of the 26th, the Army of the Ten- 
nessee drew out and moved ra]3idly by a circuit well toward Sand- 
town, and across Camp Creek, The Army of the Cumberland, 
moved below Utoy Creek, and General Schofield remained in posi- 



GRAND MOVKMENT BY RIGHT FLANK TO JONESBORo'. 259 

tion. This movement was effected with the loss of but a single 
man in the Arni}^ of the Tennessee. He was wounded by a shell 
from the enemy. The third move brought the Arm v of the Ten- 
nessee on the "West Point Railroad, above Fairburn, the Army of 
the Cumberland about Red Oak, and General Scholield closed in near 
Digs and Minis. Sherman then ordered one day's work to be 
expended in destroying the road and it was done with a will. Twelve 
and one-half miles were destroyed, the ties burned, and the rails 
heated and tortured by the utmost ingenuity of old hands at the 
work. Several cuts were filled u]) with the trunks of trees, with 
logs, rocks, and earth intermingled with loaded shell, prepared with 
toi'pedoes, to exidotle in case of an attempt to clear them out. 
Sherman, in person, inspected this work; and, satisfied witli the 
execution, he ordered the army to move next day eastward, by sev- 
eral roads — General Howard on the right, toward Jonesboro'; Gen- 
eral Thomas in the centre, by Shoal Creek Church to Couch's, on 
the Decatur and Fa3^etteviile road ; and General Schofield on the 
left, about Morrow's Mills. 

On the 31st of August, the enemy came out of his works at 
Jonesboro', and attacked General Howard. Howard was admirably 
situated to receive him, and thoroughly repulsed the attack. The 
attacking party was composed of Lee's and Hardee's Corps ; and 
after a contest of more than two hours, withdrew, leaving on the 
field over 400 dead, and his wounded, of which about 300 were left 
in Jonesboro'. His losses could not have been much less than 2,500. 
Hearing the sound of battle at Jonesboro' about noon, orders were 
renewed to push the other movements on the left and centre; and 
about 4 o'clock, p. m., the reports arrived simultaneously that 
General Howard had repulsed the enemy at Jonesboro'; that Gen- 
eral Schofield had reached the railroad a mile below Rough-and- 
Ready, and was working up the road, breaking it as he went ; that 
General Stanley, of General Thomas' army, had taken possession of 
the road below General Schofield, and was destroying its working 
south ; and that General Bird, of General Davis' Corps, had struck 
it still lower down, within four miles of Jonesboro'. 

Orders were at once given for all the army to turn on Jones- 
boro', and Howard was ordered to keep the Rebels busy, while 
Thomas should move down from the north, with General Schofield 
on his left. Sherman also ordered the troops, as tlie}^ moved down, 
to continue the thorough destruction of the railroad, because it was 
then in his hands, and he did not know but that events might divert 



260 ADDENDA. 

attention from it. General Garrard's Cavalry was directed to watch 
the roads in the rear, and to the north of the army. General Kil- 
patrick was sent south, down the Avest bank of the Flint River, with 
instructions to attack or threaten the railroad below Jonesboro'. 
Sherman expected the whole army would close down on Jonesboro' 
by noon of the 1st of September. General Davis' Corps, having a 
shorter distance to travel, was on time and deployed, facing the 
south, his right in connection with General Howard, and his left on 
the railroad. General Stanley and General Scholield were then 
moving down along the Rough-and-Ready Road, and along the rail- 
road, breaking it as they moved. When General Davis joined Gen- 
eral Howard, General Blair's Corps, on Howard's left, was thrown 
in reserve, and was immediately sent well to the right, below Jones- 
boro', to act against that flank, along with General Kilpatrick's Cav- 
alry. About 4 o'clock p. m. General Davis was all read}-, and 
commenced the assault on the lines across open fields, carrying them 
verv handsomel}^, and taking, as prisoners, the greater part of Go- 
van's brigade, including its Commander, with two four-gun batteries. 
The next morning the enemy was gone. He had retreated south. 

Kumors began to reach Sherman, through prisoners, that Atlanta 
had been abandoned during the night of Septembei- 1st; that Hood 
had blown up his ammunition trains, which accounted for the sounds 
so plainly heard in the direction of Atlanta, but which, as yet, had 
not been explained ; that Stewart's Corps was then retreating 
toward McDonough, and that the militia had gone off toward Cov- 
ino-ton. It was then too late for Sherman to interfere and attempt 
to prevent their escape, and besides he was well satisfied with the 
substantial victory already gained. Accordingly, he ordered the 
work of destroying the railroad to cease, and the troops to be held 
in hand, ready for an v movement that further information from 
Atlanta might warrant. 

General Davis' Corps had been left above Jonesboro', and Gen-, 
eral Garrard's Cavalry was still further back, and tlie latter was] 
ordered to send to Atlanta and ascertain the exact truth, and the. 
real situation of affairs. But the same night (September 4th), a 
courier arrived from General Slocum, reporting the fact that the 
enemy had evacuated Atlanta, blown up seven trains of cars, and 
had retreated on the McDonough Road. General Slocum had 
entered and taken possession on the 2d of September. 

The object of the movement against the railroad was, therefore, 
alreadv reached and concluded. As it was idle to pursue the enemy 



GRAND MOVEMENT BY RIGHT FLANK TO JONESBOKO'. 261 

in that wooded countiy with a view to his capture, Sherman gave 
orders, on the 4th, to prepare to move back slowly to Atlanta. On 
the 5th his forces moved to Jonesbofo, five miles, where they 
remained a day. On the 7th they moved to Rough and Ready, seven 
miles, and the next 'day to the camps selected. The Army of the 
Cumberland were grouped round about Atlanta, the Army of the 
Tennessee about East Point, and that of the Ohio at Decatur, where 
the troops occupied clean and healthful camps. 

Thus Sherman again accomplished, by wise and honorable 
strategy, what he could not have otherwise done without the sacri- 
fice of his noble army. Whoever will consider the extent and strength 
of the fortifications of Atlanta, as represented by the enemy, will 
not doubt the truth of this statement. 

An eye witness of the bombardment of Atlanta, "»vho was within 
the fortifications at the time, thus speaks of their strength, and the 
comparative securit}^ of the citizens : 

" The trenches are impregnable. It might be possible for a 
heavy massed column to penetrate them, but not without immense 
loss, and then not to be held. The works, which were admirably 
located at first, have been materially strengthened, and the assaults 
of the enemy (Sherman's forces) have only developed our most com- 
manding positions, and demonstrated where the engineer's skill and 
the miner's labor could be employed to the best advantage. 

" In front of the great circular line of entrenchments, for many 
rods, the fields are broken and irregular, dotted with stumps, and 
strewn with a complete tangle of tree-tops and branches, forming a 
barrier against approach. In front of the batteries, blind pitfalls, 
miniature stockades, palisades and chevaux-de-frise in all directions, 
and make a net loork out of whose entangle tiient a wild fox coidd 
harely escape. By the time a charging line could pass these barriers, 
under a tornado of grapeshot, shell and niiunie, the line would be so 
broken and reduced as to be totally ineffectual. 

" The works are almost invulnerable, and every day adds some- 
thing to their strength, and the soil is unfavorable to mining opera- 
tions. 

" There are also excavations in the soil, roofed with heavy logs, 
over which is heaped the loose earth to the height of a young Ara- 
rat. These little mounds may be seen all over the city. The gar- 
den to almost every house which does not boast a cellar is supplied 
with its artificial bomb-proof. They are perfectly secure against the 
metal storm, and many of them are quite comfortably furnished with 



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beds and chairs and other furniture. Women and children are hud- 
dled toirether in them for hours at a time, and when the citv is furious- 
Iv shelled at night, the whole community viVAy be said to be under 
ground. Especially is this the case when the moon is unusually 
bright, and the approach of the shells cannot be marked by their 
fiery trail." 

Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, 
In the Field, Atlanta, Ga., 

Thursday, Sei)tember 8, 1864. 

Special Field Orders, No. 68. 

The officers and soldiers of the Armies of the Cumberland, Ohio and Ten- 
nessee have already received the thanks of the Nation, tlirough its President and 
Commander-in-Chief; and it now remains only for him who has been with you 
from the beginning, and who intends to stay all the time, to thank the othcers 
and men for their intelligence, fidelity and courage displayed in the campaign of 
Atlanta. 

On the 1st of ]\[ay our armies were lying in garrison, seemingly ([uiet, from 
Knoxville to Huntsville, and our enemy lay behind his rocky-faced barrier at 
Dalton, proud, defiant and exulting. He had had time since Christmas to recover 
from his discomfiture on the Mission Ridge, with his ranks filled, and a new 
commander-in-chief second to none of the Confederacy in reputation for skill, 
sagacity and extreme popularity. All at once our armies assumed life and action, 
and appeared before Dalton; threatening Rocky Face, we threw ourselves upon 
Resaca, and the Rebel army only escaped by the rapidity of his retreat, aided by 
the numerous roads with which he was familiar, and which were strange to us. 
Again he took post in Altoona, but we gave liim no rest, and by a circuit toward 
Dallas, and subsequent movement to Ackworth, we gained the Altoona Pass, 
Then followed the eventful battles of Kenesaw, and the escape of the enemy 
across the Chattahoochee River. 

The crossing of the Chattahoochee and breaking of the Augusta Road w'as 
most handsomely executed by us, and will be studied as an example in the art of 
war. At this stage of our game, our enemies became dissatisfied with their old 
and skillful commander, and selected one more bold and rash. New tactics were 
adopted. Hood first boldly and rapidly, on the 20tli of July, fell on our right 
at Peach Tree Creek, and lost; again, on the 22d, he struck our extreme left, and 
was severely punished, and finally again, on the 28th, he repeated the attempt on 
our right, and that time must have been satisfied, for since that date he has 
remained on the defensive. We slowly and gradually drew our lines about 
Atlanta, feeling for the railroads which supplied the Rebel army and made Atlanta 
a place of importance. AVe must concede to our enemy that he met these efforts 
patiently and skillfully, but at last he made the mistake we had waited for so 
long, and sent his Cavalry to our rear, far beyond the reach of recall. Instantly 
our Cavalry was on his only remaining road, and we followed quickly with our 
principal army, and Atlanta fell into our possession as the fruit of all concerted 
measures liacked by a brave and competent army. This comjjleted the grand 
task whicli had been assigned us by our government, and your General again 



GRAND MOVEMKNT J'.Y RIGHT KLANK TO JONESHORo'. 263 

repeats his personul and official thanks to all the officers and men composing this 
army, for the indomitable courage and perseverance which alone could give 
success. 

We have beaten our enemy on every ground he has chosen, and have 
wrested from him his own Gate City, wher& were located his foundries, arsenals 
and workshops, deemed secure on account of their distance from our base, and 
the seemingly impregnable obstacles intervening. Notliivg is impossible to an 
army like this, determined to vindicate a government which has rights wherever 
our flag has once floated, and is resolved to maintain them at any and all costs. 

In our campaign many, yes, very many, of our noble and gallant comrades 
have preceded us to our common destination, the grave; but they have left the 
memory of deeds on which a nation can build a proud history. McPherson, 
Harker, McCook, and others dear to us all, are now the binding links in our 
minds that should attach more closely together the living, who have to complete 
the task which still lays before us in the dim future. I ask all to continue as they 
have so well begun, the cultivation of the soldierly virtues that have ennobled 
our own and other countries. Courage, patience, obedience to the laws and con- 
stituted authorities of our government, fidelity to our trusts and good feeling 
among each other, each trying to e.xcel the other in the practice of those high 
qualities, and it will then require no pro])het to foretell that our country will in 
time emerge from this war, purified by the fires of war, and worthy of its great 
founder, "Washington." 

W. T. SHERMAN, Ma j&i-- General Commanding. 
Official: L. W. Dayton, Aid-de-Camp. 

The operations of General Sherman's army, which resulted 
in the capture of Atlanta, make some of the most wonderful pages 
in the history of war. Tlie army endured long marches, great hard- 
ships and bloody battles, seemingly without a murmur of complaint. 
The artifices to mislead the enemy were so successful, Sherman's 
marches were so well guarded, his army so well fed, his battles so 
well fought and won, that both officers and soldiers deserve the 
highest credit and praise. The Southern people were made to 
believe that, so far as Johnson and Hood were concerned, they had 
succeeded in " drawing- Sherman on": that thev had accom- 
plished the very thing they had intended from the start, and 
now that they had him "just where they wished," they would 
break up his long line of communications, compel him to evacuate 
Atlanta, and then fall upon him and destroy his army. The people 
of the North, and the army, regarded the campaign as one of the 
greatest, most successful and decisive of the war. Even foreign 
nations and foreign papei'S — some of which were not jmrticularly 
friendly to our Government or army, and which"' have from the 
beginning of the war predicted tlie downfall of the great Republic — 
were constrained to admit that Sherman's campaign was a great 
success. 



264: ADDENDA. 

As soon as Sherman had occupied Atlanta, he began to 
strengthen and protect his communications with Chattanooga and 
the North, well knowing that the enemy would attempt to destroy 
them and thus compel the evacuation of Atlanta. He also some- 
what strengthened the fortifications of Atlanta, and that his plan 
might be kept from the enem}^ he issued an order compelling all 
citizens to leave the place, giving them the choice of going South 
or North. This was denounced by the enemy and their friends, in 
the North and in England, as an unheard of cruelty. In this order, 
the wisdom of which is not now doubted, General Sherman said: 
" Citizens are requested to leave Atlanta and proceed either North 
or South. The Government will furnish transportation, South as 
far as Rough and Ready; North as far as Chattanooga. All 
citizens may take their movable property with them. Transporta- 
tion will be furnished for ail movables. Negroes who wish to do 
so may go with their masters, other male negroes will be put in 
Government employ, and the women and children sent outside the 
lines." 

That this order might be carried out, an agreement was entered 
into between Sherman and Hood for a truce to last ten days. 

It was generally believed that Sherman intended to hold Atlanta 
permanently, as a base of future operations. But whoever will con- 
sider the various lines of communication, and their total length, will 
see at a glance that he never could have entertained such an idea for 
a moment. The distance from Louisville, Ky., on the Ohio River, 
to Nashville, is 185 miles; from Nashville to Chattanooga, 151 
miles; and from Chattanooga to Atlanta, 136 miles. Total distance, 
4Y2 miles. Over this long route supplies were carried to Atlanta. 
Thus it was evident that it would take a very large force to guard 
and keep open this line of communications. The enem}^, however, 
supposed this was Sherman's purpose, and at once set to work with 
their Cavalry on the Hues of communication. 

A strong force, under command of General Forrest, a])peared in 
Northern Alabama, where they compelled the garrison at Athens, 
Ala., under command of Colonel Campbell, after a fight of two 
hours' duration, to surrender. The garrison consisted of 500 
men of the Sixth and Eighth Indiana Cavalry. A detachment 
of 300 men, sent from Decatur, Ala., to reinforce the garrison 
at Athens, were, after a most obstinate engagement, captured. 
Forrest then destroyed several miles of the Tennessee & 
Alabama Railroad between Decatur and Athens, and all the bridges 



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on the road. He then advanced towards PuUiski, Tenn., a viHage 
seventy-five miles south of Nashville. General L. 11. Rousseau 
advanced to meet Forrest with the force of Infantry and Cavalry 
under his command. He was hard pressed by the enemy, and was 
compelled to fall back slowly, liousseau subsequently reiidvanced 
and maintained his ])osition. While Rousseau was engaged with 
Forrest near Pulaski, a detachment from the Rebel forces passed 
around Pulaski, and severed the communication between that place 
and Nashville In the meantime, guerrillas in Kentucky captured 
two trains of cars on the route from Louisville to Nashville. They 
burned nineteen cars. 

On the 29th of October, three days after Rousseau met Forrest 
at Pulaski, Wheeler and Roddy were north of Decatur, Ala., making 
their way toward the railroad between that place and Chattanooga, 
for the purpose of destro\'ingthe railroad between Huntsvilleand Ste- 
venson, and then effect a junction with Forrest at Tullahoma, Tenn. 
General Rousseau changed his operations to the Chattanooga Rail- 
road, at Tullahoma. 

But we can not stop to notice all the efforts of the enemy to 
interrupt the communications of Sherman. These, undoubtedly, 
were the forerunners of Hood's great movement North. The Rich- 
mond papers threw out dark, mysterious hints of some grand event 
that was about to be enacted that would compel Sherman to evacu- 
ate Atlanta and retreat back to Chattanooga, or else his army would 
be annihilated. So confident were the enemy of the success of their 
new scheme that their President, Jeff. Davis, in a public speech 
made at Macon, Georgia, on Sabbath, September 25th, announced 
the determination of Hood to march into Tennessee to sever the 
wonderfully attenuated lines of communications held by Sherman. 

General Sherman had anticipated this movement, and made 
all necessary arrangements to carry out his plans — the grandest 
movement of the war. He sent detachments under various com- 
manders at different points along the railroad between Atlanta and 
Chattanooga, and all his spare forces to General Thomas. 

x\bout the time that Davis made his famous speech at Macon, 
General Hood transferred his army from Lovejoy's Station, in the 
region of Jonesboro', twenty miles South of Atlanta, on the Macon 
Railroad, to the West Point Railroad, near Newman. On the 29th 
and 30th of September the enemy crossed the Chattahoochee, threw 
himself on the railroad running from Chattanooga to Atlanta, occu- 
})ied Dallas, and threatened Rome and Kingston. On the 5th of 



200 ADDENDA. 

October Hood struck at the important post of Altoona. His Gen- 
eral, S. G. French, in command of the advance Division of Stew- 
art's Corps, made tlie assault, and was handsomely repulsed by our 
forces under the command of the gallant General Corse, a most 
skillful and inti'epid officer. 

In the meantime, Sherman had left Atlanta in possession of the 
Twentieth Corps, General Slocum commanding, impregnably forti- 
fied and with abundant supplies, and with two corps he moved 
Js'^orth after Hood. He followed him closely like a pursuing foe. 
When Hood's general Avas assaulting Altoona, General Sherman 
was at Kenesaw Mountain, from the summit of which be signaled 
to General Corse at Altoona, over the heads of Hood's troops, to 
hold out until he relieved him. 

On the 12th of October, Hood, with one Corps of his army, in- 
vested Dalton, and the two other Corps were engaged in tearing up 
the railroad obstructing Snake Creek Ga}), in order to delay Sher- 
man, who was rapidly pursuing. Threatening Chattanooga for a 
moment. Hood suddenly broke away and marched westerly to Lafay- 
ette, and south westei'ly to Gadsden. Thus in the campaign of a 
month's duration, Hood had succeeded in severing the railroad be- 
tween Chattanooga and Atlanta. At the end of the month, how- 
ever, Sherman's forces, b\' great industry and skill, re-opened the road. 

Anticipating Hood's movement to cross the Tennessee, troops 
were placed at Bridgeport and other points along the river. With 
the remainder of the army. Sherman moved to Galesville in pursuit 
of the enemy, at which place he remained for several days. This 
place, it will be remembered, is in Northern Alabama, near the 
Georgia line. Hood renuiined for more than a week at Gadsden, 
where he threw up fortifications. While in this position, it is said, 
upon pretty good authority, that Hood's army had a ''haj>py time.^^ 
Beauregard had brought reenforcements to Hood. Whereupon the 
chief officers. Generals Hood, Beauregard, S. D. Lee, Cheatham, 
Clayton, Cleburn, and Bate, made speeches, pi-omising to '' wij^e 
S/ierfnan outf'rom the list of Yankee officers^ 

On the 23d of October Hood began to move his forces north- 
westerly through Lookout Mountain towai'd Gunters Landing and 
Decatur, on the Tennessee River. In the meantime, the army of 
General Dick Taylor had quickly moved up the Mobile and Ohio 
Railroad from Eastern Louisiana to Corinth, and thence to Tiiscnmbia. 

About the 1st of November portions of Hood's army crossed the 
river at Muscle Shoals, between Florence and Decatur, and at other 



GRAND M0VP;MENT RY RIGHT FLANK TO JONKSBoKo'. 207 

points alono- the river. His forces were attacked at various points. 
The Union gunboats took part in these engagements, and in some 
instances succeeded in repulsing the enemy, and for tiie time defeated 
their efforts to cross the river. The gunboat Undine and trans])orts 
Venus and Cheseman were captured at Fort Herman, on tlie I'iver, 
after a hard fight with the enemy's shore Ijatteries. Most of the 
crew were killed or wounded. At Johnsonville, eight steamboats, 
loaded with government stores, were burned by the Union forces, 
to prevent them from falling into the hands of the enemy. The 
place was evacuated, and soon occupied by Forrest, who captured 
two of our gunboats that were left to defend the town. 

Here Sherman and Hood parted, and forever. The enemy and 
the people of the entire country seemed to be unable to comprehend 
Sherman's movements, and were gi'eatly perplexed. Sherman said 
of Hood : " Let Imn go NoHli ; our husiness is down South. If he 
will cross the river and inarcli North.^ I %mll give him his rations^ 

General Thomas was appointed to the command of all the troops 
in Tennessee and Kentucky, and had a force large enough to meet 
the enemy and manage him. 

About the time that Hood was crossing the Tennessee, Sherman 
sent the following characteristic telegram: 

"Hood has crossed the Tennessee. Thomas will take care of 
him and Nashville, while Schofield will not let him into Chattanooga 
or Knoxville. Georgia and South Carolina are at my merc\% and I 
shall strike. Do not be anxious about me. I am all right." 

While Sherman Avas engaged in the pursuit of Hood noith, the 
enemy that were south of Atlanta, supposing that ])lace abandoned, 
started with a grand flourish of trumpets to recapture what they 
had lost. They approached at two points, and after an engagement, 
which lasted about thirty m mutes, they were disappointed and 
chagrined, and compelled to nuirch back in greater haste than they 
advanced, leaving on the field upwards of twent}^ of their number 
killed and wounded. * 

Hood continued his march north until he reached Franklin, 
within about twenty miles of Nashville, where his columns were 
terribly shattered by the troops of General Schofield in the battle at 
that place. From thence he marched to and invested Xashville, 
from which position he was subsequently driven by the forces of 
that noble old soldier, General Thomas, after losing a large part of 
his armv and most of his Artillerv. Thus endetl the inglorious 
campaign of Hood to Sherman's rear. 



268 ADDENDA. 

While Hood was on the banks of the Tennessee, preparing for 
tlie invasion and conquest of the middle portions of that State, 
Sherman, to the astonishment of the enemy and the whole 
country, was marching back towards Atlanta. 

Sherman announced his plans, in part, to his friend Captain 
Pennock of the United States Navy, in the following letter: 

Kingston, Georgia, November od, 18G4. 
Captain Pennoch^ United States Nitpy, Mound Cit[/: 

In a few days I will be off for salt water, and hope to meet my old friend 
D. D. Porter again. Will you be kind enough to write and tell him to look out 
for me about Christmas, from Hilton Head to Savannah? 

W. T. SHERMAN, Major- General. 

At the time this letter was written Sherman was making every 
preparation for his great triumphal march through Georgia. All 
valuable propert}' was removed to Chattanooga. The bridge across 
the Chattahoochee was burned, the railroad was torn up for miles 
and the rails heated and twisted so as to be unlit for future use, and 
large quantities of them were sent to Chattanooga. 

Sherman issued the order for his march at Kingston, Georgia, 
November 9th, 1864, from which we learn that the army was to be 
divided into two wings; the right commanded by Major-General O. 
O. Howard ; the left by Major-General H. W, Slocum. The right 
wing was composed of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps ; the 
left of the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps. In addition to these 
forces there was, also, a large body of Cavalry, commanded by 
General Kilpatrick, and a Brigade of Artillery for each Corps, and 
one Battery of Horse Artillery for the Cavalry. The Fourteenth 
Corps was commanded by Brevet Major-General Jeff C. Davis, 
the Fifteenth by Brevet Major-General Osterhaus, the Seventeenth 
by Major-General Blair, and tiie Twentieth by Brigadier-General 
Williams, 

The whole army, estimated by the enemy at thirty -five thou- 
sand actually numbered nearly sixty thousand well equipped soldiers, 
accustomed to long marches, fierce battles and glorious victories. 
The}^ marched without tents or a general train of supplies. They 
were ordered to suj-jply themselves from the country through which 
they marched. The frequent orders and exhortations of the Rebel 
authorities compelling the Southern people to cease the culture of 
cotton, their late king, and raise breadstuffs, was an assurance 
to Sherman and his soldiers that they would find bread on the 
route. 



GKANl) MOVEMENT BY RIGHT FLANK TO JONESBORo'. 269 

We here subjoin the order of Generals Sherman and Slocum, 
documents well worth reading and preserving. They shed light on 
all of this grand movement : 

SHERMAN'S ORDERS FOR HIS MARCH. 
Headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, } 

In the Field, Kingston, Georgia, November 9, 18G4. f 
Special Field Orders, No. 120. 

1. For the purpose of military operations this armj' is divided into two 
wings, viz : The right wing, Major-General O. O. Howard commanding, the Fif- 
teenth and Seventeenth Corps ; the left wing, Major-General H. W. Slocum com- 
manding, the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps. 

3. The habitual order of march will be, whenever practicable, by four 
roads, as nearly parallel as possible, and converging at points hereafter to be indi- 
cated in orders. The Cavalry, Brigadier-General Kilpatrick commanding, will 
receive special orders from the Commander-in-Chief. 

3. There will be no general trains of supplies, but each corps will have its 
ammunition and provision train distributed habitually as follows : Behind each 
Regiment should follow one wagon and one ambulance ; behind each Brigad eshould 
follow a due proportion of ammunition wagons, provision wagons and ambulances. 
In case of danger, each Army Corps should change this order of march by having 
its advance and rear Brigade unincumbered by wheels. The separate column 
will start habitually at 7 a. m., and make about fifteen miles per day, unless 
otherwise fixed in orders. 

4. The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To 
this end, each Brigade Commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging 
party, under the command of one or more discreet oflicers, who will gather, near 
the route traveled, corn or forage of any kind, meat of any kind, vegetables, corn 
corn meal, or whatever is needed by the command ; aiming at all times to keep in 
the wagon trains at least ten days' provisions for the command, and three days' 
forage . Soldiers must not enter the dwellings of the inhabitants or commit any 
trespass ; during tlie halt or a camp they may be permitted to gather turnips, pota- 
toes and other vegetables, and drive in stock in front of their camps. To reg- 
ular foraging parties must be entrusted the gathering of provisions and forage 
at any distance from the road traveled. 

5. To Army Corps Commanders is entrusted the power to destroy mills, 
houses, cotton gins, etc., and for them this general principle is laid down: In 
districts and neighborhoods where the army is unmolested, no destruction of sucli 
property should be permitted; but should guerrillas or bushwhackers molest our 
march, or should the inhabitants burn bridges, obstruct roads, or otherwise 
manifest local hostility, then Army Corps Commanders should order and enforce 
a devastation more or less relentless, according to the measure of such hostility. 

6. As for horses, mules, wagons, etc., belonging to the inhabitants, the 
Cavalry and Artillery may appropriate freely and without limit; discriminating, 
however, between the rich, who are usually hostile, and the poor or indus- 
trious, usually neutral or friendly. Foraging parties may also take mules or 
horses to replace the jaded animals of their trains, or to serve as pack-mules 
for the Regiments or Brigades. In all foraging, of whatever kind, the parties 



270 ADDENDA. 

engaged will refrain from abusive and threatening language, and may, when 
the officer in command tliinks ])ropcr, give written certificates of the facts, but 
not receipts; and they will endeavor to leave with each family a reasonable por- 
tion for their maintenance. 

7. Negroes who are able-bodied, and can l)e of service to the several col- 
umns, may be taken along; but each Army Commander will bear in mind that 
the (juestion of supplies is a very important one. and that his first duty is to see 
to those who bear arms. 

8. The organization at once of a good Pioneer Battalion for each Corps, 
composed, if possible, of negroes, sliould be attended to. This Battalion should 
follow the Advance Guard, should repair roads, and double them if possible, so 
that the columns will not be delayed after reaching bad places. Also, Army 
Commanders should study the habit of giving the Artillery and wagons the road, 
and marching their troops on one side; and, also, instruct the troops to assist 
wagons at steep hills or bad crossings of streams. 

!>. Captain O. M. Poe, Chief Engineer, will assign to each wing of the 
army a ponton train, fully equipped and organized, and the commander thereof 
will see to its being properly protected at all times. 

By order of Major-General W. T. Sherman. 

L. M. Dayton, Aid-dc-Qvit]). 

GENERAL SLOCUiAI'S OKDEK TO HIS WING OF THE ARMY. 

Headquarters Twentieth Corps, ) 
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7, 1864. ) 

Circular. 

When the troops leave camp on the march about to commence, they will 
carry, in haversack, two days' rations salt meat, two days' hard bread, ten days' 
colTee and salt, and five days' sugar. Each Infantry soldier will carry sixty rounds 
of ammunition on his person. Every etYort should be made, by officers and men, 
to save rations and ammunition ; not a round of ammunition should be lost or 
unnecessarily expended. It is expected that the command will be supplied with 
subsistence and forage mainly from the country. All foraging will be done by 
parties detailed for the purpose by Brigade Commanders, under such rules as 
may be prescribed by Brigade and Division Commanders. Pillaging, maraud- 
iny, and every act of cruelty or abuse of citizens will be very severely pun- 
ished. Each Brigade Commander will have a strong rear guard on every march, 
and will order the arrest of all stragglers. The danger of straggling on this 
march should be impressed upon the mind of every officer and man of the command. 
Not only the reputation of the Corps, but the personal safety of every man will 
be dependent, in a great measure, upon the rigid enforcement of discipline and 
care taken of the rations and ammunition. 

By command of M.\jor-General Slocum. 
II. W. Perkins, A. A. 6. 

The trooi)S were all concentrated in and near Atlanta. The city 
was set on tire in order to destroy everything that might be of use 
to the enemv. 



(HiANI) MOVKMKNT m KKillT FLANK 'I'O .lOXKSIiOKo'. 271 

An eye witness of the bni'tiin*^- of Athuitii, on tli(.> day unti night 
of the 15th of November, thns descr-ibes that scene : 

"Atlanta is entirely deserted of luinian beings, execpting a few 
soldiers here and there. Tiie iiouses are vacant; thei-e is no trade or 
traffic of any kind ; tlie streets are empty. Ijeautiful roses bloom in 
the gardens of tine houses, but a terrible stillness and solitude cover 
it all, depressing tiie hearts even of those who are glad to destroy it. 
In your peaceful homes at the North you cannot conceive how these 
people have suffen^ed for their crimes. 

" A grand and awful spectacle is ])resented to the beholder in 
this beautiful citv, now in tiames. Bv order, the Chief Enoineer had 
destroyed, by powder and fire, all the storehouses, depot buildings and 
machine shops. The heaven is one exj)anse of lurid fire; the air is 
filled with ilying, burning cinders ; buildings covering over two hun- 
dred acres are in ruins or in Haines ; every instant there is the sharp 
detonation or the smothered burning sound of explotling shdls and 
powder concealed in the buildings, and then the sparks and flame 
shoot away up into the (Uirk red roof, scattering the cinders fai' and 
wide. 

" These are the maciiine sho{)s where have been forged and cast 
Rebel cannon, shot and shell, that have carried death to many a brave 
defender of our Nation's honor. These warehouses have been the 
receptacle of munitions of war, stored, to be used for our destruction. 
The city which, next to Richmond, has furnished more material for 
prosecuting the war than any other in the South, exists no more as a 
means for the enemies of the Union. 

"A brigade of Massachusetts soldiers are the only troops now 
left in the town. They will be the last to leave it. To-night 1 
heard the really fine band of the Thirty-third Massachusetts play- 
ing 'John Brown's soul goes marching on,' by the light of the burn- 
ing buildings. I have never heard that noble anthem when it was 
so grand, so solemn, so inspiring." 

On the 14th and 15th, the march began in earnest. As 
Cortez burned his ships behind him, and thus cut off all possibility 
of a retreat, so Sherman broke up his communications; cut loose 
from allsup])ort and marched, relying upon his noble soldieiy and 
his own genius for a successful issue of the campaign. 

For days and weeks he was not heard from except through the 
enemy's channels. The General, his brave army and their move- 
ments were covered with a dark cloud from the view of their 
friends. No one seemed to know where thev were or whither thev 



27 ADDENDA. 

were marching, or wliat had befallen them. All over the North, 
men daily, and almost hourl}^ inquired, where is Sherman? His 
bold movement, imperfectl}^ comprehended, was regarded as full of 
peril and hazardous in the extreme. Nevertheless not a few 
believed most confidenth^, that he would make a successful march 
either to tlie Gulf or to the Atlantic coast. 

This movement was as incomprehensible to the enemy as to us, 
and far more perplexing to them. They regarded it as a retreat, 
and not as the deliberate plan of a great military genius. Their 
views, as expressed by their public presses, are curious, and should 
be preserved, as a record of the times, and the manner in which they 
were either deceived or undertook to deceive the public in regard to 
Sherman's movements. 

We he\'e insert a few extracts from the enemy's press, as a 
monument of Sherman's great achievement, and their amazing 
folly. 

EXTRACTS FROM THE REBEL PRESS 

I From the Augusta Constitutionalist, November 20th.] 

We must retard, harass, starve, destroy the army of Sherman. 
The opportunity is ours. The hand of God is in it. The blow, if 
we can give it as it should be given, may end the war. We urge 
our friends m the track of the advance to remove all forage and 
provisions, horses, mules, negroes, and stock, and burn the balance. 
Let the invader find the desolation he would leave behind him star- 
ing him in the face. You must do it yourself, or the enemy will 
do it. 

It is fully believed that General Sherman, finding his way 
north entirely closed, and a bold and defiant army confronting him, 
has determined upon making a bold retreat to the rear, where no 
army of consequence could impede his movement. 

In our judgment it is the Anabasis of Sherman. It is plain his 
onh^ object can be the making of a certain and secure base. He 
must move fast and obtain his object speedil}^ or he is lost. 

His movement is occasioned by the fact that Forrest has des- 
troyed his stores at Johnsonville, and cut his communication on 
the north. 

Sherman has many w^ear;) miles to march in obtaining his 
object. It is absurdity to talk about his making a winter cam- 
paign with no communication with his Government. He is retreat- 
ing — simply retreating. He will destroy as he goes, but that makes 
it none the less so. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE REBEL PRESS. 273 

fFromthe Savannali Neics, November 32(i, 1864.] 
A few days, however, will develop his designs, when if our 
united efforts are properly directed,he will reap the reward of his reck- 
less temerity in utter annihilation. We have only to arouse our whole 
arms-bearing people— hover on his front, his flanks and rear- 
remove from his reach or destroy everything that will subsist man 
or beast— retard his progress by every means in our power, and when 
the proper time comes, fall upon him with the relentless vengeance 
of an insulted and outraged people, and there need be no doubt of 
the result. As the great Napoleon found his Moscow, so will the 
brutal Sherman find his Atlanta. 

Meanwhile the left wing of the army, Slocum's column, passed 
through Decatur, Covington and Madison, and having destroyed 
everything that could be of advantage to the enemy, marched on 
toward Milledgeville, the capital. Before reaching the latter place 
It IS said that Sherman camped on one of the plantations of Howell 
Cobb. Said one who was with the army at the time: "We found 
his granaries well filled with corn and wheat, part of which was 
distributed and eaten by our animals and men. A large supply of 
syrup made from sorghum, which we found at nearly every planta- 
tion on the march, was stored in an outhouse. This was also dis- 
posed of to the soldiers and the poor decrepit negroes, which this 
humane, liberty-loving Major-General left to die in this place a few 
months after. Becoming alarmed, Cobb removed all the able-bodied 
mules, horses, cows and slaves. He left behind some fifty old men, 
—cripples, and women and children— with scarcely enough clothin^^ 
to cover their nakedness, with little or no food, and with'^out means 
of procuring any. We found them cowering over the fire-places of 
their miserable huts, where the wind whirled through the crevices 
between the logs, frightened at the ai)proach of the Yankees, ^Vho 
they had been told, would kill them. A more forlorn, neglected set 
of human beings I never saw." 

General Sherman distributed provisions among them, and 
assured them that wc were their friends, and not their foes. 

Slocum, with the Twentieth Corps, on the 22d of November 
entered Milledgeville. ' 

As a general rule,our soldiers were not permitted to enter private 
houses, or disturb the property of private families. They were 
allowed to help themselves freely to the productions of the country 
such as sweet potatoes, chickens, turkeys, ducks, beef, and whatever 
might be. necessary for the comfort of the " inner man." Few of 
the " boys in blue " made the march on empty stomachs. 



274 ADDENDA. 

Keeping the general direction of the two railroads, as hereto- 
fore indicated, the two Avings of the army moved on, overcoming 
the obstacles in their way without much difficulty and without any 
very serious fighting. Tlie enemy learned, when it was too late, 
that Sherman would not delay his columns for the sake of captur- 
ing the city of Macon, where they had a strong force concentrated 
behind breastworks and fortifications. Xor could the enemy tell 
as the army moved east, whether Sherman aimed at Augusta and 
Charleston or Savannah. The deception was kept up until the 
■whole army was concentrated at Millen, with the exception of the 
Cavalry, a portion of which, under Kilpatrick, occupied Waynes- 
boro, between Millen and Augusta, for the ])nrpose of keeping up 
the deception. The army then turned south and marched down 
the peninsula between the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers. On the 
afternoon of the Sth of December, the signal guns of the navy, in 
Ossabaw Sound, were distinctly heard, which sent a thrill of glad- 
ness through the hearts of onr brave soldiers. 

On the evening of December the 9th, General Howard sent 
Captain Duncan and two scouts to open up communications with 
General Foster and Admiral Dahlgren. The captain descended the 
Ogeechee river in a small boat on the 12tli, and delivered the fol- 
lowing dispatch to Admiral Dahlgren: 

Headquarters, Army of the Tennessee, | 
Near Savannah Canal, Dec. 9, 1864. \ 

To the Commander of the United States Mival Forces in the mcinity of Savannah^ 
Georgia : 

giR — "We have met with perfect success thus far. The troops are in fine 
spirits and near by. 

Resjjectfully, 
, O. O. HOWARD, Major- General, 

Commanding Right Wing (f the Army, 

On Tuesday, December 13th. the Second Division of the Fif- 
teenth Corps captured Fort McAllister. This work is situated on 
the Oo-eechee River fifteen miles from Savannah, at the point where 
the river is crossed by the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad, 
and about six miles from Ossabaw Sound. The capture of this 
fort opened complete communications between the army and the 

navy. 

Sherman sent to the War Department the following dispatch, 
announcing the capture of Fort McAllister and the success of his 
in:ii-ch to the sea: 



SUPPLIES aiu;ni)Ant. 275 

"To-day, at 5 i-. m., General ITazen's Division, of the Fifteenth 
Coi'ps, carried Fort McAllister by assault, capturing- its entire gar- 
rison and stores. This opened to us the Ossabaw Sound, and I 
passed down on a gun-boat to communicate with the fleet. Before 
opening- the communication we had completely destroyed all rail- 
roads leadinfi' into Savannah, and invested the citv. The left is on 
the Savannah River, ten miles above this city, and the right on the 
Ogeechee, at King's Bridge. 

" The army is in splendid ordei', the weather fine, and sup{)]ies 
abundant. Our march was most agreeable, and not molested by 
guerrillas. We reached Savannah three days ago, but ownng to 
Fort McAllister we could not communicate; but now we have Fort 
McAllister, we can go ahead. We have captured two boats on 
Savannali Kiver, and prevented theii* gunboats from coming down. 
The estimated population of Savannali is twent3''-five thousand, and 
the garrison fifteen thousand. General Hardee commands. 

'' We have not lost a wagon on the trip, but have gathered in a 
large supply of negroes, mnles and horses. Our teams are in better 
condition than when we started. My first dut}' will be to clear the 
army of superfluous negroes, mules and horses. 

" I have utterly destroyed over two hundred miles of rail, and 
consumed all stores and provisions that were essential to the armies 
of Lee and Hood. 

" The quick work made with McAllister, and the opening of 
communication wnth our fleet, and consequent independence for 
supplies, dissipates all their boasted threats to head me off and 
starve the army. 

" I regard Savannah as already gained. 

'" Yours truly, 
(Signed,) "W. T. Sherman, 

" Major- General.^'' 

In this connection, the reader will be pleased with the following 
extracts from the journal of one who accompanied the grand 
triumphal march of Sherman, from which he will be able to gather 
a history of the more important events and incidents of the march 
not heretofore recorded in these pages: 

SUPPLIES ABUNDANT. 

Vegetables of all kinds, and in unlimited quantities, were at 
hand, and the soldiers gave thanks as soldiers may, and were merry 



276 ADDENDA. 

as soldiers can be. In truth, so far as the gratification of the 
stomach goes, the troops are pursuing a continuous thanksgiving. 

In addition to fowls, vegetables and meats, many obtain a 
delicious syrup made from sorghum, which is cultivated on all the 
plantations, and stored away in large troughs and hogsheads. The 
mills here and there furnish fresh supplies, of fiour and meal, and we 
hear little or nothing of " hard-tack," that terror to weak mastica- 
tion. Over the sections of country lately traversed I find very lit- 
tle cultivation of cotton. The commands of Davis appear to have 
been obeyed; and our large droves of cattle are turned nightly into 
the immense fields of ungathered corn to eat their fill, while the 
granaries are crowded to overflowing with both oats and corn. 

We have also reached the sand regions, so that the fall of rain 
has no terrors; the roads are excellent, and would become firmer 
from a liberal wetting. The rise of the river will not bother us 
much, for each Army Corps has its pontons, and the launching of 
its boats is the matter of an hour. 

The country people all through this section were found to be 
extremely ignorant, liich men there are, whose plantations line 
the roads for miles; men and women who own, or did own, hun- 
tlreds of slaves, and raised every year their thousand bales of cot- 
ton; but their ignorance is only equaled by that twin sister of ignor- 
ance, intolerance. I can understand, as I never did before, why it 
was that a few persons, who every year represented the South in 
Congress, were able to wield that influence as a unit. Many of the 
people claim to have been Unionists from the beginning of the war. 
It seems hard, sometimes, to strip such men as cleai' of all eatables 
as do our troops, who have the art cultivated to the most eminent 
degree; but, as General Sherman often says to them: '• If it is true 
that you are Unionists, you should not have permitted Jefl" Davis 
to dragoon you until you are as much his slaves as once the niggers 
were yours." 

General Sherman invites all able-bodied negroes (others could 
not nuike the march) to join the column, and he takes especial 
pleasure when they join the procession, on some occasions telling 
them they are free; that Massa Lincoln has given them their lib- 
erty, and that they can go where they please; that if they earn 
their freedom they should have it; but that Massa Lincoln has given 
it to them anyhow. Thousands of negro women join the column, 
some carrying household truck; others, and many of them there are, 
who bear the heavy burden of children in their arms, while older 



IN A FOG. 277 

boys and girls plod by their sides. All these women and children 
are ordered back, heartrending- though it may be to refuse them 
liberty. 

But the majority accept tiie advent of the Yankees as the ful- 
fillment of the millennial prophecies. The " day of jubilee," the 
hope and prayer of a lifetime, has come. They cannot be made to 
understand that the}- must remain behind, and they are satisfied 
only when General Sherman tells them— as he does every day— 
that we shall come back for them some time, and that they must 
be patient until the proper hour of deliverance comes. 

THE PASSAGE OF THE OGEECHEE. 

We have had very little difficulty in crossing the Ogeechee. 
The Twentieth Corps moved down the railroad, destroying it to the 
bridge. The Seventeenth Corps covered the river at this point, 
where a light bridge was only partially destroyed. It was easily 
repaired, so that the Infantry and Cavalry could pass over it, while 
the wagons and Artillery used the pontons. The Ogeechee is about 
sixty yards in width at this point. It is approached on the nortiiern 
or western side through swamps, which would be impassable were 
it not for the sandy soil which packs solid when the water covers 
the roads, although in ])laces there are treacherous quicksands 
which we are obliged to cordurov. 

This evening I walked down to the river. A novel and vivid 
sight was it to see the fires of pitch pine fiaring up into the mist and 
darkness, the figures of men and horses looming out of the dense 
shadows in gigantic proportions. Torchlights are blinking and 
flashing away off in the forests, while the still air echoed and 
reechoed with theories of the teamsters and the wild shouts of the 
soldiers. A long line of the troops nuirched across the front bridge, 
eacli soldier bearing a torch ; their light refiected in quivering lines 
in the swift-running stream. 



IN A FOG. 

Soon a fog, which settles like a blanket over the swamps and 
forests of the river bottoms, shut down upon the scene, and so dense 
and dark was it, that torches were of but little use, and men were 
directed here and there by the voice. 



^78 ADDENDA. 

CAPTURE OF FORT McALLISTER. 

Pecember 13th. 

At Fort McAllister. To day I have been a spectator of one of 
those glorious sights where the actors, passing tlirough the most 
fearful ordeal of fire which befalls the soldier, come out successful, 
and are always after heroes. 

The Second Division of the Fifteenth Corps have marched 
to-day fifteen miles; and, without the assistance of Artillery, have 
crossed an open space of six hundred yards, under a fierce fire of 
twenty-one heavy guns, crawling through a thick abatis, crossed a 
ditch of great depth, at whose bottom were driven thick palisades, 
torn them away, surmounted the crest and palisades, shot and 
bayoneted the gunners, who refused to surrender, at their ])osts, 
and planted the Stars and Stripes upon the work in triumph. 
The assault w^as made with a single line, which approached the fort 
from all sides but that of the river, at the same instant, never for an 
instant wavering, no man lurking shelter, but facing the fire man- 
fully. 

The explosion of torpedoes at this point did not deter them. 
General Sherman's old Division and Corps had been told that he had 
said, " Carry the place by assault to-night, if possible." They 
resolved to fulfill their old commander's wish, and they did it. Per- 
haps in the history of this war there has not been a more striking 
example of the evidence of quick, determined action. Had we 
waited, put up intrenchments, shelled the place, and made the usual 
approaches, w^e should have lost man}^ more lives, and time was 
invaluable. As it is, our entire loss is not more than ninety men 
killed and wounded, and we have gained a necessity — a base of 
supplies. Our whole army are eager to emulate such a glorious 
example, and this esprit du corps has been raised to the grandest 
height. 

General Sherman did not feel that his march to the sea was 
completed until Savannah was captured. That city fell, as Jericho 
of old did, without resistance. Its gates were opened, and the con- 
queror marched in. 

After the capture of Fort McAllister, Sherman began the sys- 
tematic investment of the city. The enemy made the best use of 
every natural advantage against us. The rice fields below the city 
were flooded by means of the canals, rendering an advance from 
that quarter difiicult. The swamps north and west were perplexing 



CAPTURE OF FORT MCALLISTER. 279 

barriers. These difficulties were only in the way of an assault. 
Our lines, however, were greatly annoyed in the gradual approach 
by torpedoes, which the enemy had ingeniously disposed. They 
were so perfectly covered as to be almost unnoti cable, and so 
arranged that the slightest pressure of the foot upon the small plug 
sufficed to explode them. 

This danger Sherman overcome, by ordering the Rebel prison- 
ers in his hands to go before our advancing lines, find the torpedoes, 
and dig them up — dig up the death-traps which perhaps their own 
hands had planted. 

The investment of the city was as complete as it could be made 
by the 20th of December. Every outlet of the city was completely 
in our possession, except the causeway just beloAv Hutchinson's' 
Island, and every effort was made to secure that. 

On the morning of the 20th of December, Sherman sent by 
flag of truce his demand for the surrender of the city, closing his 
dispatch with the words of General Hood in his demand for the 
surrender of Dalton and the negro troops: "If this demand is not 
complied with, I shall take no prisoners." Of course this was 
intended as irony on the part of Sherman. 

General Hardee, in his reply, boasted that he had men and 
supplies enough -to hold the city, and that he would not sur- 
render. 

Arrangements were completed for the assault and bombard- 
ment. Even the guns of the enemy, which had been captured with 
the surrounding forts, had been removed and placed in position to 
aid in the attack. 

General Hardee anticipated the assault, and on the night of the 
20th evacuated, passing over the Union Causeway under the pro- 
tection of his iron-clads and the batteries of the lower end of 
Hutchinson's Island. The rear guard of the fugitives fired the 
navy-yard, and the iron-clads were blown up. 

On the following morning, December 21, 1864, the beautiful 
city of Savannah was surrendered by the Mayor and Council of the 
City, with the request that private property and the rights of citi- 
zens should be respected. 

Thus ended the most remarkable march in the annals of his- 
tory. European journals, and among these the London Times, 
admit that the march of Sherman from Chattanooga to Savannah 
is absolutely without a parallel. "As the Pilgrims landed and sent 
liberty and a glorious form of nationality Westward, along their 



280 ADDENDA. 

northern lines of march, so the West sounded back to the ocean 
again that subHme hymn of universal freedom which our fathers 
sung on Plymouth Rock when the}^ dedicated this continent to 
God." 

This wonderful march, and those who took part in it, will be 
remembered. The pen of the historian and the lays of the minstrel 
will keep this great event fresh in the memory of men. Even now, 
and thus beautifulh^ has this story been woven into verse : 

SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA. 

Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain ^ 

That frowned on the river below, 
While we stood by our guns in the morning, 

And eagerly w^atched for the foe. 
When a rider came out from the darl^ness, 

That hung over mountain and tree, 
And shouted, "Boys, up and be ready. 

For Sherman will march to the sea." 

When cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman 

Went up from each valley and glen. 
And the bugle re-echoed the music 

That came from the lips of the men; 
For we know that the stars on our banner 

More bright in their splendor would be. 
And that blessing from North-land would greet us 

As Sherman marched down to the sea. 

Then forward, boys, forward, to battle, 

We marched on our wearisome way. 
And we strewed the wild hills of Resaca — 

God bless those who fell on that day. 
Then Kenesaw, dark in its glory, 

Frowned down on the flag of the free; 
But the East and the West bore our standard 

As Sherman marched down to the sea. 

Still onward we pressed till our banner 

Swept out from Atlanta's grim walls, 
And the blood of the patriot dampened 

The soil where the traitor's flag falls. 
But we paused not to weep for the fallen 

Who slept by each river and tree; 
Yet we twined them wreaths of the laurel 

As Sherman marched down to the sea. 



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GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN. 





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MAJOR-GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN. 



MAJOR GENERAL O. O. HOWARD. 



CAPTURE OF FORT MCALLISTER. 281 

Proud, proud was our ;irmy that, morning, 

That stood by the cypress and puie, 
When Sherman said: "Boys, you are weary; 

This day fair Savannah is thine." 
Then sang we a song for our chieftain 

Tliat echoed o'er river and lea. 
And the stars on our banner shone brighter 

When Sherman marched down to the sea. 

After the escape of Genei'al Hardee with his 18,000 troops, 
and the surrender by the Mayor of the City, our army marched 
in, to the evident delight of the citizens. In numerous instances 
men and women looked upon the old flag and wept, and some 
hailed it with lively demonstrations of joy. 

The fruits of the capture were as follows: The city; all its 
fortifications intact, with the adjoining rivers and harbors; about 
1,200 prisoners; 152 guns; 38,000 bales of cotton; large quantities 
of ammunition and rice; 13 locomotives and 200 railroad cars. 
The forts captured were McAllister, on the Ogeechee ; Lawton 
and Lee, on the Savannah River, near the city, and Jackson, on the 
river, two miles below the citv. 

THE CAMPAIGN IK THE CAEOLINAS. 

This campaign may be called the climax of this colossal war. 
The movement of Sherman, which commenced on the 1st day of 
May, 1864, and ended with the surrender of Johnston's army and all 
the Confederate forces from the Chattahoochee to the Potomac on 
the 26th da\^ of April, 1865, extending through almost an entire 
year, was but one campaign ; was but the carrying out of the plan 
of Sherman when he marched from Chattanooga — a campaign that 
has no parallel in the annals of history. 

Less than one month was consumed at Savannah in making- 
proper dispositions of captured property and other local matters, and 
in preparations for the march North through the "sacred soil of 
Soutli Carolina." 

B}'^ the 15th of January, 1865, Sherman and his splendid army 
were ready for the march. Preliminary to this, General Howard, 
commanding' the rig-ht wing, was ordered to embark his forces at 
Thunderbolt, transport them to Beaufort, and thence, by the 15th 
of January, make a lodgment on the Charleston Railroad at Poco- 
taligo. This was accom))lished punctuallv, at little cost, by the 



282 ADDENDA. 

Seventeenth Corps, Major-General Blair, and a depot for supplies 
Avas established near the month of Pocotaliso Creek, Avith easv 
Avater communications back to Hilton Head. As our troops advanced 
toward the Charleston Railroad thev met the enemv, Avho fell back 
after a short skirmish. The next day an attempt was made to flank 
the enemy's position, but they hastil}' evacuated their works, leav- 
ing three guns behind them. This position was gained with the loss 
of about ten men killed and wounded. The attempt of General 
Foster to carry this same position, about a montli previous!}', cost 
him twelve or fifteen hundred men. 



THE LEFT WING. 

The left wing, commanded by Major-General Slocum, and the 
Cavalry, commanded by Major-General Kilpatrick, were ordered, in 
the meantime, to rendezvous near Robertsville and Coosawachie, 
South Carolina, with a depot of supplies at Pureysburg, or Sister's 
Ferry, on the Savannah River. General Slocum had a good pon- 
ton bridge constructed o])posite the city, and the " Union Cause- 
Avay," leading through the low rice fields opposite Savannah, was 
repaired and corduroyed, but before the time appointed to start the 
heavy rains of January had swollen the river, broken the pontoon 
bridgeand overflowed the whole bottom,so that the causeway was four 
feet under water, and Slocum was compelled to look higher up for a 
passage over the Savannah River. He moved up to Sister's Ferry, 
but even there the river, with its overflowed bottoms, was nearly 
three miles wide, so that he did not succeed in getting his whole 
wing across until the first week in February. 

In the meantime General Grant had sent to Sherman Grover's 
Division of the Nineteenth Corps, to garrison Savannah, and had 
drawn the Twenty-third Corps, Major-General Schofield's command, 
from Tennessee and sent it to reen force the commands of Major- 
Generals Terry and Palmer, operating on the coast of North Caro- 
lina, to prepare the way for the march of Sherman. 

On the 18th of January Sherman transferred the forts and city 
of Savannah to Major-General Foster, commanding the Department 
of the South. Sherman then imparted to Foster his plans of opera- 
tions and instructed him how to follow his movements inland by occu- 
pying, in succession, the city of Charleston and such other points along 
the sea-coast as would be of anv value to us. 



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TJIK CAMPAIGN IN THE CAKOLINAS. 283 

The combined naval and land forces under Admiral Porter and 
General Terry had, on the 16th of January, captured Fort Fisher 
and the Rebel forts at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and thus gave 
to Sherman another ]ioint of security on the sea-coast. 

Sherman had already resolved, in his own mind, and had 
advised General Grant that he would undertake, "at one stride," to 
make Goldsboro', and open communications with the sea by the 
Newbern Railroad, lie ordered Colonel W. W. AVright, Superin- 
tendent of Military Railroads, to proceed, in advance, to Newbern, 
and to be prepared to extend the railroad out from Newbern to 
Goldsboro' by the 15th of March. On the 19tli of January all 
preparations were finished and the orders for the march given. The 
Chief Quartermaster and Commissary, Generals Easton and Beck- 
with, were ordered to complete tlie supplies at Sister's Ferry and 
Pocotaligo, and then follow the movements of the army coastwise, 
looking for its arrival at Goldsboro', North Carolina, about the 15th 
of March, where they were to open communications with Sherman 
from Morehead City. 

On the 22d of January General Sherman in person embarked 
at Savannah for Hilton Head, where he held a conference Avith 
Admiral Dahlgren of the United States Navy, and Major-General 
Foster, commanding the Department of the South, and the next day 
proceeded to Beaufort, riding out thence on the 24th to Pocotaligo, 
where the Seventeenth Corps, Major-General Blair, was encam])?d. 
At that time the Fifteenth Corps was somewhat scattered. Wood's 
and Hazen's Divisions were at Beaufort. John E. Smith's was 
marching from Savannah by the coastward, and Corse was still at 
Savannah, cut off by storms and the freshet in the river. 

On the 25th a demonstration was made against the Combahee 
Ferry and the Railroad Bridge across the Salkehatchie, merelv to 
amuse the enemy, who had evidently adopted that river as his defen- 
sive line against our supposed ohjectlve point~i\\Q City of Chai-leston. 
General Sherman reconnoitered the line in person, and saw that the 
heavy rains had swollen the river so that water stood in the swamps 
for a breadth of more than one mile, at a depth of from one to 
twenty feet. Not having the remotest intention of approaching 
Charleston, a comparatively small force was able, by seeming pre'- 
parations to ci-oss over, to keep in their front a considerable force of 
the enemy who seemed disposed to contest our suj)])osed advance 
on Charleston. 



> 

284 ADDENDA. 

On the 27tli General Sherman rode to the camp of General 
Hatch's Division of Foster's command, on the TuUafuiney and 
Coosawatchie Rivers, and directed those places to be evacuated, as no 
longer of any use to us. That Division was then moved to Poco- 
talig'o to keep up the feint;? already begun, until we should, with the 
right wing, move higher up and across the Salkehatchie about Kiver's 
or Broxton's Bridge. 

On the 29th Sherman learned that the roads back of Savannah, 
had at last become sufficiently clear of the flood to admit of General 
Slocum putting his wing in motion, and that he was already 
approaching Sister's Ferry, Avhither a gun-boat, the Pontiac, Captain 
Luce, kindly furnished by Admiral Dahlgren, had preceded him to 
cover the crossing. In the meantime three Divisions of the Fi fteenth 
Corps had closed up at Pocotaligo, and the right wing had loaded 
its wagons and was read}' to start. Sherman, therefore, directed 
General Howard to move one Corps, the Seventeenth, along the 
Salkehatchie as high up as River's Bridge, and the other, the Fif- 
teenth, bv Hickorv Hill, Bosser's C ross- Roads, Anglesev Post Office 
and Beaufort's Bridge. Hatch's Division was ordered to remain at 
Pocotaligo, feinting at the Salkehatchie Railroad Bridge and Ferry 
until our movement turned the enemy's position and forced him to 
fall behind the Edisto. 

The Seventeenth and Fifteenth Corps drew out of camp on the 
31st of January., but the real march began on the 1st of February, 
All the roads northward had for weeks been held by Wheeler's Cav- 
alry, who had, bv details of negro laborers, felled trees, burned 
bridges and made obstructions to impede our march. But so well 
organized were the Pioneer Battalions, and so strong and intelligent 
our men, that obstructions seemed only to quicken their progress. 
Felled trees were removed and bridges rebuilt by the heads of columns 
before the rear could close up. On the 2d of February the Fifteenth 
Corps reached Toper's Cross Roads, and the Seventeenth was at 
River's Bridge. From Toper's Cross Roads Sherman communicated 
with General Slocum, still struggling with the floods of the Savan- 
nah River at Sister's Ferry. He had two Divisions of the Twentieth 
Corps, General Williams, on the east bank, and was enabled to cross 
over on his pontons the Cavalry of Kilpatrick. General Williams 
was ordered to Beaufort Bridoe bv wav of Lawtonville and Allen- 
dale, Kilpatrick to Blackville by wa\' of Barnwell, and General 
Slocum was ordered to hurry the crossing at Sister's Ferry as much 
as possible and overtake the right wing on the South Carolina Rail- 



THE CAMPAIGN IN THE CAROLINAS. 285 

road. General Howard, with the right wing, was directed to cross 
the Salkehatchie and push rapidly for the South Carolina Ilailroad, 
at or near Midway. The enemy held the line of the Salkehatchie 
in force, having Infantry and Artillery intrenched at Elver's and 
Beaufort's Bridges. The Seventeenth (.^or])s was ordered to ciirry 
Elver's Bridge, and the Fifteenth Corps Beaufort's Bridge. The 
former position was carried promptly and skillfully by Mower's and 
Giles A. Smith's Divisions of the Seventeenth Corps, on the 3d of 
February, by crossing the swamp, nearly three miles wide, with 
water varying from knee deep to shoulder deep. The weather was 
bitter cold, and Generals Mower and Smith led their Divisions in 
person, on foot, waded the swamps, made a lodgment below the 
bridge, and turned on the Eebel Brigade which guarded it, driving it 
in disorder and confusion towards Branchville. Our casualties were 
one officer and seventeen men killed, and seventy wounded, who 
were sent to Pocotalig-o. 

For this success great credit should be given to Generals Mower 
and Smith, who promptly can led out General Sherman's orders in 
the face of great difficulties. To march a whole day, and that, too. 
a bitter, cold day in mid-winter, through water up to the arm-pits, in 
places, required endurance, such as none but brave and true soldiers 
could or would endure. Such men can not well fail of success. 

A correspondent, who examined the position abandoned by the 
enemy, sjDeaks of it as follows: 

"February 5th. 
" I have examined the works at Beaufort Bridge to-day, which 
were evacuated by the rebels as soon as we made the crossing at 
Elver's Bridge. It is a place of remarkable strength, both in its 
natural advantages and the strong line of works which defend the 
passage. A Brigade with a single section of Artillery could have 
held an army at bay. So it would seem, at least, when one wades 
and stumbles over the narrow road which leads for half a mile through 
the swamp. When you come out of the dense jungle, and befoi-e 
crossing the main branch of the stream, you see before you, upon its 
border, a line of well-built works extending for a quarterof a mile 
on either side. Here are three embrasures, Avhich were pierced 
for heavy guns, while the parapet is surmounted by the protecting 
head-log. If the enemy had not been flanked below, and could have 
held this place, it would have cost us hundreds of lives. As it is, 
we gained the peninsula formed by the Salkehatchie and Edisto 
Eivers. We have the choice of going to Augusta or Charleston. 



'•2SQ ADDENDA. 

The latter place we can capture with less trouble than Savannah 
gave us, supposing- we made a direct attack, for we can make an 
excellent base at Bull's Bay. I know that the General expects to 
capture Charleston by operating a hundred miles away from its 
walls — a strategy which has not always been practiced in this war. 
" General Williams is up with two of the Divisions of the Twen- 
tieth Corps. Kilpatrick and his cavalry are at Allandale, and the 
balance of the left wing have crossed the Savannah. The army 
here has made a short move to-day, and we are within a single day's 
march of the Charleston & Augusta Railroad. We hear that the 
Rebels intend defending it at several points, but they cannot protect 
the whole line, and we will flank them somewhere." 

After the line of the enemy on the Salkehatchie was broken, 
the}^ retreated hastily behind the Edisto River, at Branchville, and 
our whole army was pushed rapidly to the South Carolina Railroad, 
at Midway, Bamberg, or Lowry's Station and Graham's Station. 
The Seventeenth Corps, by threatening Branchville, forced the 
enemy to burn the Railroad Bridge, and Walker's Bridge below, 
across the Edisto. All hands were at once set to work to destroy 
the railroad track. From the Ttli to the 10th of February this work 
was thoroughly prosecuted bv the Seventeenth Corps from Edisto 
up to Bamberg, and by the Fifteenth Corps from Bamberg up to 
Blackville. In the meantime General Kilpatrick had brought his 
Cavalry ra]iidly by Barnwell to Blackville, and had turned toward 
Aiken, with orders to threaten Augusta, but not to be drawn need- 
lessly into serious battle. This he skillfully accomplished, skirmish- 
ing heavil}' with Wheeler's Cavalry, first at Blackville and after- 
wards at Williston and Aiken. General Williams, with two Divis- 
ions of the Twentieth Corps, marched to the South Carolina Rail- 
road, at Graham's Station, on the 8th, and General Slocum arrived 
at Blackville on the 12th of the month. The destruction of the 
railroad was continued by the left wing from Blackville up to Wind- 
sor. By the 11th of February all the army was on the railroad from 
Midway to Johnson's Station, thereby dividing the enemy's forces, 
which still remained at Branchville and Charleston on the one hand 
and at Aiken and Augusta on the other. 

For a clear and satisfactory account of the rest of the campaign, 
we refer to the official report of General Sherman, which we here 
insert word for word : 



CIKNEKAL SHEUMAn's OFiaciAf, KKFOKT. 287 

GENERAL SHEIIMAN'S OFFICIAL EEPORT. 

"We then began the movement on Orano-eburg. Tlie Seven- 
teenth Corps crossetl the south fork of the Edisto River at I>in- 
naker's Bridge, and moved straight for Orangeburg, while the Fif- 
teenth Corps crossed at Hohnan's Bridge, and moved to Poplar 
Springs in support. The left wing and Cavalry were still at work 
on the railroad, with orders to cross the South Edisto at New and 
Guignard's Bridges, move to the Orangeburg and Edgefield Road, 
and there await the result of the attack on Orangeburg. On the 
12th the Seventeenth Corps found the enemy enti'enched in front of 
the Orangeburg Bridge, but swept him away by a dash, and fol- 
lowed him, forcing him across the bridge, which was partially 
burned. Behind the bridge was a Battery in position, covered by a 
cotton and earth parapet, with wings as far as could be seen. 
General Blair held one Division (Giles A. Smith's) close up to the 
Edisto, and moved the other two to a point about two miles below, 
where he crossed Force's Division by a ponton bridge, holdino- 
Mower's in support. As soon as Force emerged from the swamp, 
the enemy gave ground, and Giles A. Smith's division gained the 
bridge, crossed over, and occupied the enemy's parapet. He soon 
repaired the bridge, and by four in the afternoon the whole Corps 
was in Orangeburg, and had begun the work of destruction on the 
railroad. Blair w^as ordered to destroy this railroad effectuallv up 
to Lewisville, and to push the enemy across the Congaree, and force 
him to burn the bridges, which he did on the 14th ; and without 
wasting time or labor on Branchville or Charleston, which I knew 
the enemy could no longer hold, I turned all the columns straio-ht 
on Columbia. The Seventeenth Corps followed the State Road, 
and the Fifteenth Corps crossed the North Edisto from Poplar 
Springs, at Schilling's Bridge, above the mouth of "Cawcaw 
Swam})" Creek, and took a country road, which came into the State 
Road at Zeigtor's. On the 15th the Fifteenth Corps found the 
eneni}' in a strong position at Little Congaree Bridge (across Con- 
garee Creek), \x\i\\ R tete-de-povt on the south side, and a well-con- 
structed fort on the nortii side, commanding the bridge with Artil- 
lery. The ground in front was very bad, level and clear, with a 
fresh deposit of mud from a recent overflow. General Charles R. 
Woods, who commanded the leading Division, succeetled, iiowever, 
in turning the flank of the tete-de-pont by sending Stone's Brigade 
through a cypress swamp to the left ; and, following up the retreat- 



288 ADDENDA. 

ing enemy promptly, he got possession of the bridge and fort 
beyond. The bridge had been partially damaged by fire, and had 
to be repaired for the passage of artillery, so that night closed in 
before the head of the column could reach the bridge across the 
Congaree River, in front of Columbia. That night the enemy 
shelled our camps from a Battery on the east side of the Congaree, 
above Gran by. Early next morning (February 10) the head of the 
column reached the bank of the Congaree, opposite Columbia, but 
too late to save the fine bridge which spanned the river at that 
point. It was burned by the enemy. While Avaiting for the pon- 
tons to come to the front, Ave could see the people running about 
the streets of Columbia, and occasionally small bodies of Cavalry, 
but no masses. A single gun of Captain De Grass' Battery was firing 
at their Cav^alry squads, but I checked his firing, limiting him to 
a few shots at the unfinished State House walls, and a few shells 
at the railroad depot, to scatter the people Avho were seen carrying 
away sacks of corn and meal that Ave needed. There Avas no Avhite 
flag- or manifestations of surrender. I directed Geno'al HoAvard 
not to cross directly in front of Columbia, but to cross the Saluda 
at the Factory, three miles above, and afterward Broad River, so as 
to approach Columbia from the north. Within an hour of the 
arrival of General Howard's head of column at the river opposite 
Columbia, the head of column of the left Aving also appeared, and I 
directed General Slocum to cross the Saluda at Zion Church, and 
thence to take roads direct for Winnsboro', breaking up en rotUe the 
railroads and bridges about Alston. 

" General Howard effected a crossing of the Saluda near the Fac- 
tory on the 16th, skirmishing Avith Cavalry, and the same night 
made a flying bridge across Broad River, about three miles above 
Columbia, by Avhich he crossed over Stone's Brigade, of Wood's 
Division, Fifteenth Corps. Under cover of this Brigade, a ponton 
bridge was laid on the morning of the 17th. I was in person at this 
bridge, and at 11 o'clock in the forenoon learned that the Mayor 
of Columbia had come out in a carriage and made a formal surren- 
der of the city to Colonel Stone, Twenty-fifth Iowa Infantry, com- 
manding Third Brigade, First Division, Fifteenth Corps. About the 
same time a small party of the Seventeenth Corps had crossed the 
Congaree in a skiff, and entered Columbia from a point immediately 
west. In anticipation of the occupation of the city, I had made 
Avritten orders to General Howard touching the conduct of the 
troops. These Avere to destroy absolutely all arsenals and public 



GENERAL SHERMAn's OFFICIAL REPORT. 289 

property not needed for our own use, as well as all railroads, depots, 
and machiner}^ useful in war to an enemy, but to spare all dwell 
ings, colleges, schools, asylums and harmless private property. 1 
was the first to cross the ponton bridge, and in company \vith 
General Howard, rode into the city. The day was clear, but a 
perfect tempest of wind was raging.' The Brigade of Colonel Stone 
was already in the city, and was properly posted. Citizens and 
soldiers were on the streets, and general good order prevailed. 
General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confederate Rear 
Guard, had, in anticipation of our capture of Columbia, ordered that 
all cotton, public and jH'ivate, should be moved into the streets and 
fired, to prevent our making use of it. Bales were piled every- 
where, the rope and bagging cut, and tufts of cotton were blown 
about in the wind, lodged in the trees and against houses, so as to 
resemble a snowstorm. Some of these piles of cotton were burning, 
especially one in the very heart of the city, near the Court House.' 
but the fire was partially subdued by the labor of our soldiers. 
During the day the Fifteenth Corps passed through Columbia, and 
out on the Camden Eoad. The Seventeenth did not enter the town 
at all ; and as I have before stated, the left wing and Cavalry did 
not come w^ithin two miles of the town. 

" Before one single public building had been fired by ordor, the 
smoldering fires set by Hampton's order were rekindled by the 
wind, and communicated with the buildings around. About dark 
they began to spread, and got beyond the control of the Brigade 
within the city. The whole of Wood's Division was brought in^but 
it was found impossible to check the flames, which, by "midnight, 
had become unmanageable, and raged until about -i o'clock in°the 
morning, when, the wind subsiding, they were got under control. I 
was up nearly all night, and saw Generals Howard, Logan, Wood 
and others laboring to save houses and protect families thus suddenly 
deprived of shelter, and of bedding and wearing apparel. I dis- 
claim, on the part of my army, any agency in this fire ; but, on the 
contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remained uncon- 
sumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton 
with having burned his own city of Columbia, not Avith a malicious 
intent, or as the manifestation of a silly '•' Roman stoicism," but from 
folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder. 
Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames, 
but others, not on duty, including the officers who had long been 
imprisoned there, rescued by us, may have assisted in spreading the 



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ADDENDA. 



fire after it Iiacl once begun, and may liave indulged in unconcealed 
joy to see the ruin of the capital of South Carolina. During the 
18th and 19th the arsenal, railroad depots, machine shops, foundries 
and other buildings were properly destroyed by detailed working 
parties, and the railroad track torn up and destroyed down to Kings- 
ville and the Wateree Bridge, and up in the direction of Winnsboro'. 
" At the same time the left wing and Cavalry had crossed the 
Saluda and Broad Rivers, breaking up the railroad about Alston, 
and as high up as the bridge across Broad River on the Spartanburg 
Road, the mam body moving straight for Winnsboro', which Gen- 
eral Slocum reached on the 21st of February. He caused the rail- 
road to be destroyed up to Blackstakes Depot, and then turned to 
Rocky Mount, on the Catawba River. The Twentieth Corps reached 
Rocky Mount on the 22d, laid a ponton biidge, and crossed over 
during the 23d. Kilpatrick's Cavalry followed, and crossed ovei in 
a terrible rainstorm during the night of the 23d, and moved up to 
Lancaster, with orders to keep up the delusion of a general move- 
ment on Charlotte, N. C, to which General Beauregard and all the 
Cavalry of the enemy had retreated from Columbia. I was also 
aware that Cheatham's Corps, of Hood's old army, was aiming to 
make a junction with Beauregard at Charlotte, having been cut off 
bv our rapid movement on Columbia and Winnsboro'. From the 23d 
to the 2Gth we had heavy rains, swelling the rivers, and making the 
roads almost impassable. The Twentieth Corps reached Hamburg- 
Rock on the 2r)th, and waited there for the Thirteenth Corps to get 
across the Catawba. The heavy rains had so swollen the river that 
the ponton bridge broke, and General Davis had very hard work 
to restore it, and get his command across. At last he succeeded, 
and the left wing was all put in motion for Cheraw. In the mean- 
time the right wing had broken up the railroad to Winnsboro, and 
thence turned for Pea's Ferry, where it was crossed over the Ca- 
tawba before the heavy rains set in, the Seventeenth Corps moving 
straight on Cheraw via Young's Bridge, and the Fifteenth Corps by 
Tiller's and Kelly's Bridges. From this latter Corps detachments 
were sent into Camden to burn the bridge over the Wateree, with 
the railroad depot, stores, etc. A small force of mounted men, mider 
Captain Duncan, was also dispatched to make a dash and interrupt 
the railroad from Charleston to Florence, but it met Butler's Divis- 
ion of Cavalry, and, after a sharp night skirmish on Mount Elon, was 
compelled to return unsuccessful. Much bad road was encount- 
ered at Lynch's Creek, which delayed the right wing about the 



GENERAL SHEHMAJs'iS OFFICIAL KEPOET. 291 

same length of time as the left wing had been at the Catawba. On 
the 2d of March the leading Division of the Twentieth Corps entered 
Chesterfield, skirmishing with Butler's Division of Cavalry, and the 
next day, about noon, the Seventeenth Corps entered Cheraw. the 
enemy retreating across the Pedee, and burning the bridge at that 
point. At Chei-aw we found much ammunition and many guns, 
which had been brought from Charleston on the evacuation of that 
citv. These were destroved, as also the railroad trestles and bridsres 
down as far as Darlington. An expedition of mounted Infantry was 
also sent down to Florence, but it encountered both Cavalry and 
Artillery, and returned, having only broken up in part the branch 
road from Florence to Cheraw. 

'' Without unnecessary delay, the columns were again put in 
motion, directed on Fayetteville, N. C, the right wing crossing the 
Pedee at Cheraw, and the left wing and Cavalry at Sneedsboro'. 
General Kilpatrick was ordered to keep well on the left flank, and 
the Fourteenth Corps, moving by Love's Bridge, was given the 
right to enter and occupy Fayetteville first. The weatlier continued 
unfavorable and roads bad, but the Fourteenth and Seventeenth 
Corps reached Fayetteville on the 11th of March, skirmishing with 
Wade Hampton's Cavalry, that covered the rear of Hardee's retreat- 
ing arm, which, as usual, had crossed Cape Fear River, burning the 
bridge. During the inarch from the Pedee, General Kilpatrick had 
kept his Cavalry well on the left and exposed flank. During the 
night of the 9th of March his three Brigades were divided to picket 
the roads. General Hampton detecting this, rushed in at daylight 
and gained possession of the camp of Colonel Spencer's Brigade, 
and the house in which General Kilpatrick and Colonel Spencer had 
their quarters. The surprise was complete, but General Kilpatrick 
quickly succeeded in rallying his men, on foot, in a swamp near bv, 
and by a prompt attack, well followed up, regained his artillerv, 
horses, camp and everything, save some prisoners, whom the enemy 
carried off, leaving their dead on the ground. 

'• The 12th, 13th and 14th were ])assed at Fa3^etteville, destro}"- 
ing absoiutelv the United States arsenal and the vast amount of 
machinery which had formerly belonged to the old Harper's Ferrv 
United States arsenal. Every building was knocked down and 
burned, and eveiw piece of machinery utterly broken up and ruined, 
b}' the First Regiment Michigan Engineers, under the immediate 
supervision of Colonel O. M. Poe, Chief Engineer. Mucii valuable 
property, of great use to the enemy, was here destroyed or cast into 
the river. 



292 ADDENDA. 

" Up to this period I had perfectly succeeded in interposing my 
superior army between the scattered parts of the enemy. But I 
was then aware that the fragments that had left Columljia under 
Beauregard had been reinforced by Cheatham's corps fr©in the 
"West, and the garrison of Augusta, and that ample time had been 
o'iven to move them to mv front and flank about Raleigh. Hardee 
had also sncceeded in getting across Ca])e Fear River ahead of me, 
and could, therefore, complete the junction with the armies of 
Johnston and Hoke in North Carolina. And the whole, under the 
command of the skillful and experienced Joe Johnston, made up an 
armv superior to me in Cavalry, and formidable enough in Artillery 
and Infantry to justify me in extreme caution in making the last step 
necessary to complete the march I had undertaken. Previous to 
reaching Fayetteville, I had dispatched to Wilmington, from Laurel 
Hill Church, two of our best scouts, with intelligence of our position, 
and my general plans. Both of these messengers reached Wilming- 
ton, and on the morning of the 12tli of March, the Army Tug David 
son, Captain Ainswortli, reached Fayetteville from Wilmington, 
brino'ino- me full intebigence of the outside world. On the 
same day this tug carried back to General Terry, at Wilmington, 
and General Schofield, at Newbern, my dispatches to the effect that, 
on Wednesday, the 15th, we would move for Goldsboro', feigning on 
Raleig-h, and ordering them to march straight for Goldsboro', which 
I expected to reach about the 20th. The same day the gunboat 
Eolus, Captain Young, United States navy, also reached Fayette- 
ville, and through her 1 continued to have communication with 
Wilmington until the day of our actual departure. While the work 
of destruction was going on at Fayetteville, two ponton bridges 
were laid across Cape Fear River, one opposite the town and the 
other three miles below. 

"'General Kilpatrick was ordered to move up the plank road, 
to and beyond Averysboro'. He was to be follow^ed by four Divisions 
of the left wing, with as few wagons as possible; the rest of the 
train, under escort of the two remaining Divisions of that wing, to 
take a shorter and more direct road to Goldsboro'. In like manner, 
General Howard was ordered to send his trains, under good escort, 
well to the right, toward Faison's Depot and Goldsboro', and to 
hold four Divisions light, ready to go to the aid of the left wing if 
attacked while in motion. The weather continued very bad, and 
the roads had become mere quagmire. Almost every foot of it had 
to be corduroyed to admit the passage of wheels. Still, time 



GENERAL SHERMAN's OFFICIAL REPORT. 293 

was so important, that punctually, according to order, the columns 
moved out from Cape Fear river, on Wednesday, the 16th March. 
I accompanied General Slocum, who, preceded by Kilpatrick's 
Cavalry, moved up the river, or plank road, that day, to Kyle's 
Landing, Kilpatrick skirmishing heavily with the enemy's "rear 
guard, about three miles beyond Taylor's Hole Creek. At General 
Kilpatrick's request. General Slocum sent forward a Brigade of 
Infantry to hold a line of baricades. 

"Next morning the column advanced in the same order, and 

developed the enemy, with Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry, in an 

intrenched position in front of the point where the road branches off 

toward Goldsboro' through Bentonville. On an inspection of the 

map it was manifest that Hardee, in retreating from Fayetteville, 

had halted in the narrow, swampy neck between Cape Fear and 

South Rivers in hopes to hold me to save time for concentration of 

Johnston's armies at some point to his rear, namely, Ealeigh, Smith 

field or Goldsboro'. Hardee's forces were estimated at twenty 

thousand men. It was necessary to dislodge him that we might have 

the use of the Goldsboro' Road, so as to keep the feint on Raleigh as 

long as possible. General Slocum was, therefore, ordered to press 

and carry the position, only difficult by reason of the nature of the 

ground, which was so soft that horses would sink everywhere, 

and even men could hardly make their way over the common pine 

barrens. 

"The Twentieth Corps, General Williams, had the lead, and 
Ward's Division the advance. This was deployed, and the skirmish 
line developed the position of a Brigade of Charleston heavy Artillery, 
armed as Infantry (Rhett's), posted across the road behind a light 
parapet, with a battery of guns enfilading the approach across a 
cleared field. General Williams sent a Brigade (Casey's) by a 
circuit to the left and turned this fine, and, by a quick charge, broke 
the Brigade which rapidly rek'eated back to a second line, better 
built, and more strongly held. A Battery of Artillery (Winninger's) 
well posted, under the immediate directions of Major Reynolds, 
Chief of Artillery of the Twentieth Corps, did good execution on the 
retreating Brigade, and, on advancing Ward's Division over the 
ground. General Williams captured three guns and tw^o hundred 
and seventeen prisoners, of which sixty-eight Avere w^ounded, and 
left in a house near by with a Rebel officer, four men and five days' 
rations. One hundred and eight Rebel dead were buried by us. As 
Ward's Division advanced he developed a second and stronger line, 



294 ADDENDA. 

when Jackson's Division was deploj'ed forward on the right of Ward, 
and two Divisions of Jetf . C. Davis' (Fourteenth) Corps on the left, well 
toward Cape Fear. At the same time, Kilpatrick, who was acting 
in concert with General Williams, was ordered to draw back his 
Cavalry and mass it on the extreme right, and in concert with 
Jackson's right to feel forward for the Goldsboro' Road. He got a 
Brio:ade on the road, but it Avas attacked bv McLaws' Rebel Division 
furiously, and, though it fought well and hard, the Brigade drew 
back to the flank of the Infantry. The whole line advanced late in 
the afternoon, drove the enemy well within its intrenched line, and 
pressed him so hard that next morning he was gone, having 
retreated in a miserable, stormy night over the worst of roads. 
Ward's Division of Infantry followed, too, and through Averysboro', 
developing the fact that Hardee had retreated, not on Raleigh, but 
on Smithfield. I had, the night before, directed Kilpatrick to cross 
South River at a milldam to our right rear, and move up on the 
east side toward Elevation. General Slocum reports his aggregate 
loss in the affair known as that of Averysboro', at twelve officers 
and sixty-five men killed, and four hundred and seventy-seven 
wounded. We lost no prisoners. The enemy's loss can be inferred 
from his dead (one hundred and eight), left for us to bury. Leaving 
Ward's Division to keep up a show of pursuit, Slocum's column was 
turned to the right, built a bridge across the swollen South River, 
and took the Goldsboro' Road, Kilpatrick crossing to the north, in 
the direction of Elevation, with orders to move eastward, watching 
that flank. In the meantime the wagon trains and guards, as also 
Howard's column, were wallowing along the mir}^ roads towards 
Bentonville and Goldsboro'. The enemy's Infantry, as before 
stated, had retreated across our front in the same direction, burning 
the bridges across Mill Creek. I continued with the head of 
Slocum's column, and encamped the night of the 18tli with him on 
the Goldsboro' Road, twenty-seven miles from Goldsboro', about five 
miles from Bentonville, and where the road from Clinton to Smith- 
field crosses the Goldsboro' Road. Howard was at Lee's store' only 
two miles south, and both columns had pickets three miles forward 
to where the two roads came together, and became common to 
Goldsboro'. 

"All the signs induced me to believe that the enemy would make 
no further opposition to our progress, and would not attempt to strike 
us in flank while in motion. I, therefore, directed Howard to move 
his right wing by the new Goldsboro' Road, which goes by way of 



GENERAL SHEKMAn's OFFICIAL REPORT. 295 

Falling Creek Church. I also left Slocum, and joined Howard's 
column, with a view to open communication with General Schofield, 
coming up from ^ewbern and Terry, from Wilmington. I found 
General Howard's column well strung out, owing to the very bad 
roads, and did not overtake him in person until he had reached 
Falling Creek Church, with one regiment forward to the cross-roads, 
near Cox's Bridge, across the Neuse. I had gone from General 
Slocum about six miles, when I heard artillery in his direction, but 
was soon made easy by one of his staff officers overtaking me, ex- 
plaining that his leading Division (Carlin's) had encountered a 
Division of Eebel Cavalry (Dibbrell's), which he was driving easily. 
But soon other staff officers came up, reporting that he had devel- 
oped near Bentonville the whole of the Rebel Army under General 
Johnston himself. I sent him orders to call up the two Divisions 
guarding his wagon trams, and Hazen's Division of the Fifteenth 
Corps, still back near Lee's store, to fight defensively until I could 
draw up Blair's Corps, then near Mount Olive Station, and, with the 
remaining three Divisions of the Corps, come up on Johnston's left 
rear from the direction of Cox's Bridge. In the meantime, while 
on the road, I received couriers from both Generals Schofield and 
Terry. The former reported himself in possession of Kinston, 
delayed somewhat by want of provisions, but able to march so as to 
make Goldsboro' on the 21st; and Terry was at or near Faison's 
Depot. Orders were at once dispatched to Schofield to push for 
Goldsboro', and to make dispositions to cross Little River in the 
direction of Smithfield as far as Millard; to General Terry to move 
to Cox's Bridge, lay a ponton bridge, and establish a crossing; and 
to Blair to make a night march to Falling Creek Church; and at 
daylight the right wing, General Howard, less the necessary wagon 
guards, was put in rapid motion on Bentonville. By subsequent 
reports I learned that General Slocum's head of column had ad- 
vanced from its camp of March 18th, and first encountered Dib- 
brell's Cavalry, but soon found his progress impeded by Infantry and 
Artillery. The enemy attacked his head of column, gaining tem- 
porary advantage, and took three guns and caissons of General 
Carlin's Division, driving the two leading Brigades back on the main 
body. As soon as General Slocum realized that he had in his front 
the whole Confederate xVrmy, he promptly deployed the two Divis- 
ions of the Twentieth Corps, General Williams. These he arranged 
on the defensive, and hastily ]>repared a line of barricades. 
General Kilpatrick also came up at the sound of Artillerv, and 



296 ADDENDA. 

massed on the left. In this position, the left received six distinct 
assaults, by the combined forces of Hoke, Hardee and Cheatham, 
under the immediate command of General Johnston himself, without 
giving an inch of ground, and did good execution on the enemy's 
ranks, especially with our Artillery, the enemy having little or none. 
''Johnston had moved bv night from Smithfield with great 
rapidit}', and without unnecessary wheels, intending to overwhelm 
my left flank before it could be relieved b}^ its cooperating columns. 
But he "reckoned without his host." I had expected just such a 
movement all the way from Fayetteville, and was prepared for it. 
During the night of the 19th General Slocum got up his wagon 
train, with its guard of two Divisions, and Hazen's Division of the 
Fifteenth Corps, which reenforcements enabled him to make his 
position impregnable. The right wing found Rebel Cavalry watch- 
ing its approach, but unable to offer any serious o])position, until our 
head of column encountered a considerable body behind a barricade 
at the forks of the road near Bentonville, about three miles east of 
the battlefield of the dav before. On movino- forward the Fifteenth 
Corps, General Logan found that the enemy had thrown back his 
left flank, and had constructed a line of parapet connecting with 
that toward General Slocum, in the form of a bastion, its salient on 
the main Goldsboro' road, interposing between General Slocum on 
the west, and General Howard on the east, while the flanks rested 
on Mill Creek, covering the road back to Smithfield. General 
Howard was instructed to proceed with due caution until he had 
made strong connection on his left with General Slocum. This he 
soon accomplished, and at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th 
a complete and strong line of battle confronted the enemy in his 
intrenched position, and General Johnston, instead of catching us 
in detail, was on the defensive, with Mill Creek and a single bridge 
in his rear. Nevertheless, we had no object to accomplish by a 
battle, unless at an advantage, and therefore my general instructions 
were to press steadily with skirmishers alone, to use Artillery pretty 
freely on the wooded space held by the enemy, and to feel pretty 
strongly the flanks of his position, which were, as usual, covered 
with the endless swamps of this region of country. I also ordered 
all empty wagons to be sent at once to Kinston for supplies, and 
other impediments to be grouped near the Neuse, south of Golds- 
boro', holdint^ the real armv in close contact with the enemv, ready 
to fight him if he ventured outside of his parapets and swamp 
obstructions. Thus matters stood about Bentonville on the 21st of 



GENERAL SHERMAn's OFFICIAL REPORT. 297 

March. On tlie same day General Schoiield entered Goldsboro' with 
little or no opposition, and General Terr}^ had got possession of the 
Neuse Eiver, at Cox's Bridge, ten miles above, with a ponton bridge 
laid and Brigade across, so that the three armies were in actual con- 
nection, and the great object of the campaign was accomplished. 

" On the 21st a steady rain prevailed, during which General 
Mowers Division of the Seventeenth Corps, on the extreme right, 
had Avorked well to the right around the enemy's flank, and had 
nearlv reached the bridge across Mill Creek, the onlv line of retreat 
open to the enemy. Of course there was extreme danger that the 
enemy would turn on him all his reserves, and, it might be, let go 
his para])ets to overwhelm Mower. Accordingl}^ I ordered at once 
a general attack by our skirmish line, from left to right. Quite a 
noisy battle ensued, during which General Mower was enabled to 
regain his connection with his own Corps, by moving to his left 
rear. Still he had developed a weakness in the enemy's position of 
wdiioh advantage might have been taken; but that night the enemy 
retreated on Smithfield, leaving his pickets to fall into our hands, 
Avith many dead unburied, and wounded in his field hospitals. At 
daybreak on the 22d pursuit was made two miles beyond Mill 
Creek, but checked by my order. General Johnston had utterly 
failed in his attempt, and we remained in full possession of the field 
of battle. 

"General Slocum reports the losses of the left wing, about Ben- 
ton ville, at nine officers and one hundred and forty-five men killed, 
fifty-one officers and eight hundred and sixteen men wounded, and 
three officers and two hundred and twenty-three missing, taken 
prisoners by the enemy ; total, one thousand two hundred and forty- 
seven. He buried on the field one hundred and sixty-seven Rebel 
dead, and took three hundred and thirty-eight prisioners. General 
Howard reports the losses of the right wing as two officers and 
thirty-five men killed, twelve officers and two hundred and thirty- 
nine men wounded, and one officer and sixty men missing ; total 
three hundred and ninety-nine. He also buried one hundred Rebel 
dead, and took one thousand two hundred and eighty-seven prison- 
ers. The Cavalrv of Kilnatrick was held in reserve, and lost but 
few, if any, of which I have no report as yet. Our aggregate loss at 
Bentonville was one thousand six hundred and forty-six. I am well 
satisfied that the enemy lost heavily, especially in his assault on the 
left Aving, during the afternoon of the 19th ; but as I have no data 
save his dead and wounded left in our hands, I prefer to make no 



298 ADDENDA. 

comparison. Thus, as I have endeavored to explain, we had com- 
pleted our march on the 21st, and had full possession of Goldsboro', 
the real ' objective,' with its two railroads back to tlie seaports of 
Wilmington and Beaufort, North Carolina. These were being 
rapidly repaired by strong working parties, directed by Colonel W. 
"W". Wright, of the Eailroad Department. A large number of supplies 
had already been brought forward to Kinston, to which place our 
wagons had been sent to receive them. I therefore directed General 
Howard and the Cavalry to remain at Bentonville during the 22d, to 
bury the dead and remove the wounded, and on the following day 
all the armies to move to the camps assigned them about Goldsboro', 
there to rest and receive the clothing and supplies of which they 
stood in need. In person I went on the 22d to Cox's Brigade to 
meet General Terr}^ whom I met for the first time, and on the fol- 
lowing day rode into Goldsboro', where I found General Schofield 
and his army. The left wing came in during the same day and next 
morning, and the Cavalry moved to Mount Olive Station, and Gen- 
eral Terry back to Faison's. On the 25th the Newbern Eailroad 
was finished, and the first train of cars came in, thus giving us the 
means of bringing from the depot at Morehead City full supplies to 
the army. 

" It was all important that I should have an interview with the 
General-in-Chief, and presuming that he could not at this time leave 
City Point, I left General Schofield in chief command and proceeded 
with all expedition by rail to Morehead City, and thence by steamer 
to City Point, reaching General Grant's headquarters on the evening 
of the 27th of March, I had the good fortune to meet General 
Grant, the President, Generals Meade, Ord, and others, of the Army 
of the Potomac, and soon learned the general state of the military 
world, from which I had been, in a great measure, cut off since Jan- 
uary. Having completed all necessary business, I reembarked on 
the navy steamer Bat, Captain Barnes, which Admiral Porter placed 
at my command, and returned via Hatteras Inlet and Newbern, 
reaching my own headquarters, in Goldsboro', during the night of 
the 30th. During my absence full supplies of clothing and food had 
been brought to camp, and all things were working well. I have 
thus rapidly sketched the progress of our columns from Savannah to 
Goldsboro', but for minute details must refer to the reports of subor- 
dinate commanders and of staff officers, which are not yet ready, but 
will in due season be forwarded and filed with this report. I can 
not, even with any degree of precision, recapitulate the vast amount 



GENERAL SHEKMAn's OFFICIAL REPORT. 299 

of injury done to the enemy, or the quantity of guns and materials 
of war captured and destroyed. In general terms, we have trav- 
ersed the country from Savannah to Goldsboro', with an average 
breadth of forty miles, consuming all the forage, cattle, hogs, sheep, 
poultry, cured meats, corn meal, etc. The public enemy, instead of 
drawing supplies from that region to feed his armies, will be com- 
pelled to send provisions from other quarters to feed the inhabitants. 
A map herewith prepared by my Chief Engineer, Colonel Poe, with 
the routes of the four Corps and Cavalry, will show, at a glance, the 
countr}'- traversed. Of course, the abandonment to us by the enemy 
of the whole sea-coast, from Savannah to Newbern, N. C, with its 
forts, dock-yards, gunboats, etc., was a necessary incident to our 
occupation and destruction of the inland routes of travel and supply. 
But the real object of this march was to place this army in a position 
of supph', whence it could take an appropriate part in the spring 
and summer campaign of 1805. This was completely accomplished 
on March 21st, by the junction of the three armies and occupation 
of Goldsboro'. 

"In conclusion, I beg to express, in the most emphatic manner, 
my entire satisfaction with tlie tone and temperament of the whole 
army. J^othing seems to dampen their energy, zeal or cheerfulness. 
It is impossible to conceive a march involving more labor and expos- 
ure ; yet I cannot recall an instance of bad temper by the way, or 
hearing an expression of doubt as to our perfect success in the end. 
I believe that this cheerfulness and harmony of action reflects upon 
all concerned quite as much honor and fame as ' battles gained ' or 
' cities won,' and I therefore commend all, generals, staff officers, 
and men, for these high qualities, in addition to the more soldierly 
ones of obedience to orders and the alacrity they have always mani- 
fested when danger summoned them ' to the front.' " 

Tlie grand march of Sherman's army from Savannah to Golds- 
boro', JSTorth Carolina, secured to us the entire sea-coast as far north 
as Newbern. The capture of Branchville and Columbia secured the 
fall of Charleston, the cradle of secession and the " hot bed of trea- 
son." For long months our naval forces had been thundering away 
at that stronghold, but without succeeding in its capture. It fell b}'' 
the strategy of Sherman without the firing of a single gun. 

Early in the e^'^ening of February 17, 1865, Brigadier General 
Schimmelpfenning, Commander of the Northern District of the 
Department of the South, discovered some indications which led him 
to believe that the enemv were about to evacuate Charleston and its 



300 ADDENDA. 

defenses. He ordered his pickets and picket boats to keep a sharp 
lookout, and report immediately any movement on the part of the 
enemy. In the night a terrific explosion took place in Charleston, 
which shook every ship in the harbor and off the bar, and was heard 
for many miles around. Immediately after the explosion flames 
broke out in various parts of the city. The first explosion, which 
was at the railroad depot, was the means of firing- the houses in the 
vicinit}', from which the flames rapidly spread until the conflagra- 
tion became general in that part of the cit\\ A large number of 
women and children were killed by the explosion. 

About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th, General Schim- 
melpfenning moved his forces and occupied the c it}' and its defenses. 
The formidable earthworks on James Island were found abandoned, 
and the guns spiked. 

At 8 o'clock a detachment was sent to take possession of Fort 
Sumter, and raise the flag which floated over Sumter when General 
Anderson surrendered the fort, nearly four years previously. At 
8 o'clock the old flag was raised over Sumter, amid deafening cheers. 

As fast as our foes could be thrown into the city, they were set 
to work to put out the tires. Thus, whatever remains of Charles- 
ton, was saved from being consumed to ashes by Federal soldiers' 
Union hands. Thousands of bales of cotton were burned by the 
enemy. 

EEFUGEES AND LOYALISTS. 

One of the most significant features of our journey through 
the South has been the frequent prayer and entreaty of the people 
that they might be permitted to join our column and march with 
us to the sea, or wherever we might go, so that they could leave 
the region of despotism, anywhere out of the South, and toward 
the pure air of freedom again. One is a mechanic, who was born 
and reared in the old Granite State. He came here four years ago 
as master mechanic in a railroad machine-shop. He has been able 
to avoid service in the Rebel Army, because his services were neces- 
sary in the shop. He is taken along for his services and can be 
made of good use. 

Here is a daughter and mother, whose son is in the Federal 
army. Their little means have long since been exhausted, and they 
wish to go to Connecticut, where relatives will gladly care for them 
and where they can get news of their son and brother. Another 



REFUGEES AND LOYALISTS. 301 

is a poor Irish Avoman, Avhose husband has been conscripted into 
the Rebel Arm}', and is now a ])risoner, sick in a Northern hos|">itaL 

At Columbia there were several families of wealth and posi- 
tion, who had always been suspected of loyal proclivities. Upon our 
occupation of that city it became known to the Eebel inhabitants 
that tliese people had always assisted our prisoners, and previous 
to our approach, had secreted a great many at imminent peril. It 
would be im])ossible to reject these generous, self-sacrificing friends. 
The fire had not spared their houses, and they were homeless, but 
we well knew that to remain after our visit would be certain death. 
Up to this time the want of means of transportation had necesi- 
tated a refusal of these requests. But some of the wagons were 
now empt}'; then there were a number of vehicles captured from 
the enemy ; horses and mules we bring in every day, and, again, 
not a few of the families asking our protection are able to furnish 
their own transportation. 

General Howard was in command of the troops at Columbia, 
and these unfortunates did not appeal in vain to his generous, sym- 
pathetic heart, which never refuses to sN^mpathize with those in 
distress. 

With the approbation of General Sherman, General Howard at 
once organized an emigrant train, which was placed under guard of 
the escaped prisoners belonging to other commands. This train has 
been separated, and apportioned to each Division of the Fifteenth 
and Seventeenth Corps. They are getting along famously. Ladies 
who have been always accustomed to the refinements of life, seem 
to enjoy the journey as much as if it were a picnic. In truth it is 
better than that ; for, while the}'' are not exposed to the dangers of 
war, they participate in its excitements. The column has a singularly 
outre appearance. First, there will be a huge family coach contain- 
ing ladies, with their personal baggage crowded about them ; then 
an army wagon loaded with men, women and children, comfortably 
seated upon such articles of household truck as they are allowed to 
carry. Following this will be a country cart filled with negro 
women, for the negroes come along also, and hosts of little curly, 
bullet-headed youngsters, who gaze curiously upon the strange 
sio'hts which meet their eves. 

General Hazen, whose name can never be mentioned but with 
inspiring recollections of the assault of Fort McAllister, tells me 
that the large number who accompany his Division are but little 
trouble to him, and that they have so quickly learned to forage for 



302 ADDENDA. 

themselves that they are no expense to the Government. Two. of 
the escaped officers, witli a detachment of ten men, have charge of 
the train, which takes its assigned place in tlie column ; a few tents, 
which are in excess or have been captured, are pitched, when the 
cokinin go into camp, and our little colony, with grateful hearts, go 
to their night's rest with the glad consciousness that they are step 
by step approaching a land of civilization and freedom. 

In this life, so new and strange to the refugees, numbers of 
families become separated from each other. Portions of the army, 
who for (lavs march upon separate roads, will at one time or another 
come together again, as at this place, for example, when three Corps, 
which have been marching upon different roads, unite at Cheraw 
for the purpose of crossing the river. The troops and trains, 
although really distinct to the initiated eye, may be mistaken for 
one another. I have seen the negroes, especially, wandering about 
as completely lost as if they were in an uninhabited forest. 

THE DESOLATION OF WAR— FOKAGERS AKD FORAGING. 

Our foragers spread in irregular and regular parties, skirmish- 
ing over the country. These enterprising characters were known by 
the names of " Bummers," " Smoke-house Rangers," and " Do- 
Bovs." A bummer is an individual who bv favor of a waoon- 
master becomes possessed of a broken-down mule, or else starts, if 
needs be, on foot, in either case, of course, armed with his musket. 
He makes his way into the enemy's country, finds horses in num- 
bers by help of the negroes, hitches a team to a wagon, loads on it 
all the stores and supplies he can find in the nearest house, mounts 
his negroes on the rest of the horses, and returns with his spoils. 
He never objects to gold watches or silver plate "if he can find 
them in a swamp a mile from any house." These men were strag- 
glers, not in the rear, but in front of the army, and they went before 
it like a cloud, being often twentv or thirtv miles in advance of the 
head of the column. Thev would fio-ht anvthino-. Three "bum- 
mers" together would at any time attack a company of rebel cav- 
alry, and, in favorable circumstances, would disperse them and cap- 
ture their booty. With the exception of Columbia alone, every 
town in South Carolina through which the army passed was first 
entered by the bummers. At Chesterfield they were two days 
and a half ahead of the army, the whole Corps having congregated 
at this point. 



THE DESOLATION OF WAK — FORAGERS AND FORAGING. 303 

At Robertsville we struck tlie Savannah ik Augusta Rail- 
road, and in obedience to tlie "file left" order, turned toward 
Augusta. Half a mile out I noticed tlie smoldering- ruins of 
Colonel Lawton's fine plantation, the fence and negro shanties alone 
remaining undisturbed. The plantation hands were all at home, 
but before the column had disappeared but one or two of Lawton's 
blacks remained to tell the tale of devastation when the Eebel lord 
returned to his deserted grounds. 

One thousand miles triumphantly traversed brought the cap- 
tors of Atlanta, Milledgeville, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, 
Fayettville and Goldsboro', into the very heart of North Cai-olina. 

Some of the results of this campaign were fourteen cities cap- 
tured, hundreds of miles of railroad destroyed, thousands of bales 
of cotton burned, 85 cannon, 4,000 prisoners and 25,000 animals. 

After Sherman had destroyed the arsenal, machinery and other 
property that might be of service to the enemy, without resting his 
army at Fa3''etteville — as he would have been excused for doing, and 
as any other commander would have done — marched across the 
country to Goldsboro'! With his habitual but astonishing fearless- 
ness, he moved lor the north and rear of Goldsboro', for the pur- 
pose of flanking it. The move was a perfect success. Bragg and 
Johnston moved back on Raleigh. The fianking of Goldsboro' at once 
relieved the pressure which kept Schofield at Kinston. 

Sherman's arnw moved forward, and without serious opposition 
ca])tured Raleigh, the capital of the State. 

The unfailing success of Sherman in driving the rebel army 
before him, from point to point, until he had reached a position so 
threatening to Richmond, eom])elled General R. E. Lee to send 
reinforcements to Johnston from Richmond. Tiie enemy knew 
that unless Sherman could be checked both armies would be cao'ed 
inside the fortifications of Richmond. Rut to reinforce Johnston 
was to present a strong tem])tation to General Grant to attack 
Richmond. The experiment was tried, '• ex necessitate.''' Gi'ant, 
with his eagle eye, saw the prey, darted down upon it and seized it. 

MORE INFORMATION OF THE EARLIER HISTORY OF 
THE TWENTY-FIFTH MISSOURI. 

Since the main portion of the book was in type, Lieutenant 
Colonel Yan Horn has furnished the followino- facts concernino- the 
earlier historv of the formation of the Twcntv-lifth ]\Iissouri. 



304 ADDENDA. 

The nucleus of this Regiment was composed of the commands 
of Colonel Peabody and Major Yan Horn, engaged at the battle of 
Lexington in September 1 801, taken prisoners, paroled, and afterward 
exchanged for the prisoners taken at Camp Jackson in May 1861. 

IS^ear the last of May, 1861, Geiieral Lyon, in command at St. 
Louis, authorized, by an order issued to the commanding officer 
at Fort Leavenworth, the organization of two Battalions of 300 
men each, at St, Joseph and Kansas Cit}^, to be commanded respect- 
ively by Everett Peabody, and P. T. Van Horn, to be known as 
'• United States Reserve Corjis." The order farther directed that 
the two towns be garrisoned by regular troops till the volunteers 
were organized, mustered in, and armed. This was done, and Major 
Peabody at once began increasing his command to a Regiment to be 
called the Thirteenth Missouri. Attached to this command he also be- 
gan organizing a cavahy detachment under Major Berry, but as this 
for'be had not been mustered in when the command was ordered to 
Lexington, it was left to help garrison Kansas City, and on the sur- 
render to General Price of the balance of the command, Major 
Berry's was necessarily disbanded. This is the real history of the 
command of Major Berry, and why the Thirteenth Missouri under 
Peabody became extinct. The history of Van Horn's Battalion 
gives the history of both commands and their organization into 
the Twenty-fifth Infantry after Lexington. 

This is the true story of the beginning of the Twenty-fifth Mis- 
souri, and is unknown to most of the old Regiment. Major Berry left 
Missouri before the war ended, and soon after the incidents narrated, 
and went to Oreo;on. He was seen bv Colonel Van Horn in AYash- 
infrt<jn while the Colonel was in Congress. 

There were never any "Horse Guards" connected with the 
Twenty-fifth — they were volunteers from the beginning, and were 
called officially '"United States Reserve Corps" till after their organiza- 
tion as a Regiment, after the State Government had been reorganized, 
and we had a Governor to commission offices. The fact that for nearly 
a year after secession we had no loyal Governor in Missouri is lost 
sight of by the writers in military affairs in the early part of 1861. 
Xeither Peabodv nor Van Horn had a commission issued under the 
authority of the State till in March 1862. If this fact was kept in 
mind, much of the confusion as to those early times would be 
avoided. It explains all the mystery as to the Thirteenth Regiment, 
Major Berry's command, and all other organizations, prior to the 
time when Governor Gamble took office under the Provisional Gov- 



MOKE OF THE EARLIER HISTORY, ETC. 305 

ernment of Missouri — when for the first time troops in this State 
were organized under State authority. Sterhng Price was Major- 
General of the State Guard of Missouri, commissioned by Governor 
Jackson, when he took us at Lexington, and tlie cartel of exchange 
for the Camp Jackson prisoners was made with him as such, and not 
as a Confederate, for at that time he had not come under the Con- 
federate authority. 

A sentence of Lieutenant Kewhard's, in relation to Lieutenant- 
Colonel Van Horn, is a mistake. He was well of his wound and w^as 
on active duty at the battle of Corinth — was in the council with 
Colonel Peabodyand Major Powell, and party to all that was going 
on. Major Powell was Brigade officer of the day, and the order 
to take out those companies was given to him as such, to be taken 
out and stationed when he made his grand rounds. It was Lieuten- 
ant Newhard's impression that as he was not the officer in charge,' 
it was from his wound — Colonel Van Horn's official report will show 
where Lieutenant Newhard's memory was at fault in this interval. 
Lieutenant KeAvhard's statement is a very clear one, and agrees in 
the main with Lieutenant-Colonel Yan Horn's. 



INDEX. 



Page. 

Adams, Charles E , 15,28,30,35,49,54,73,87,99, 110 

Adventure on the Front Line Before Corinth 51 

Anderson, Jesse D 10, 11, 15, 33 

Anderson, John F. .. 59 

Appendix 245 

Argyle, Fort 163, 164 

Armstrong, David 17, 40,50,63, 134 

Ashton, La 79, 80, 81, 83 

Atlanta, Ga 142,145, 146,164,257, 271 

Averysboro, Battle of 173,174,292,294 

Bailey, T.W 14, 49,59,66,07,68,134,146, 166 

Ball's Ferry 159 

Banuaker's Bridge '. 166, 287 

Barfleld, Miss Sallie and the Rifle 140 

Barrow, W. H., Sergt 37 

Bates'Ferry 167 

Battalions 72, 85,105, 120, 146 

Battle of Averysboro 173, 174, 292, 294 

Bentonville 173, 174, 175, 295, 297 

Corinth, Second 58 

Cow Bells 17 

Farmington 52, 57 

Jonesboro 144, 257, 259 

Lexington 26, 121, 127 

New Madrid 28, 30 

Shiloh 51. 122,245,257, 305 

Baxter's Bayou 79, 80, 81 

Bayne,Geo. G 134,146 

Beadles, J. D., Care of 64, 65, 66 

Beam's Cross Roads, N. C 173, 174 

Bear Creek, Ala 101, 102 

Beaufort, S.C 165,281,283 

Belgian Muskets, 69 Caliber 17,22, 24 

Belle Memphis Steamboat . 61 

Bentonville, N. C, Battle of 173, 174, 175, 295, 297 

Berghoff, Dr. John T 129, 130, 134 

Berry, Major 120,304 

Besier, John C 13, 33, 53, 59 63, 73, 85, 134 

Bet of Col. Flad's 102 

Bird's Point, Mo 32, 49 

Bissell, J. W., Col. 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 23, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 47, 48, 50, 51, 54, 61, 64, 67, 

68, 71, 75, 76, 77, 83, 83, 88, 90, 95, 97 141 

Bissell, J. H., Lieut 72, 100 

Bivins, Thomas E 53 

Black Bayou 82, 143 

Bolivar, Tenn 63, 71 

Book, John C, Dr 100, 134, 146 

Both Parties Mistaken 137 

Box's Mill 136, 137 

Bradley, S 18 

Bradshaw, R. C 129, 134 

Brackett, G. B 13, 14, 54, 56, 59, 68, 71, 77, 105, 134 

Bramble, John J' 130 

Brant, 13, 14 

Bras, Frank n 13,14,58,67,68, 134,146, 166 



X INDEX. 

Bristow, Geo. W., Sergt 40, 44 

Broiul liiver 168, 169, 290 

Brooks, J. P 58, 59, 66, 68, 79, 134 

Brown, B. F 12, 24 

Brown, S. S 134, 146, 161, 162 

Brown, W.W 134 

Buzard, Benj. F 134,147, 155,157,158, 159 

Burial, Unusual 49 

Camp Hasle 18 

Genesee 17 

llochester 17 

Mildred 20, 24 

Julia : 20 

Campaign Through the Carolinas 165, 281, 303 

Canonchee River 163 

Canal New Madrid 35 to 39 

Vicksburg 77, 81, 84, 106 

Cape Girardeau, Mo. 15, 32 

Cape Fear liiver 172, 291 

Car (gun). Bullet-proof 97 

Carlin, James .' 99 

Carlisle, Henry 134 

Carroll Station, Tenn 64, 76 

Carver, — 53 

Centralia, Mo. Massacre, The ■. 147 to 154 

Charleston, S. C, Evacuation of 299 

Chattahoochee River Bridge, Ga 143 to 257 

Chattanooga, Tenn 143 

Cheraw, S. C 170, 171, 290 

City of Alton, Steamer 85 

Citizens, Spies, etc 57, 64, 88, 89, 90, 138, 141 

Ordered from Atlanta 264 

Claim, a Rebel 93 

Claxton, William 134, 147 

Clark, Aaron, Sergt 55 

Clinton, Ga 158 

Coleman, Benj. F 134, 146 

Columbia, S.C. 167,168,169,288 

Comanche ( Wra. Frazier) 25, 63 

Commerce, Mo 30 

Company A 21, 95 

Companies, Formation of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 134, 135, 146, 147 

Congareo River 167, 288 

Connett, W. H 15, 24, 26, 59, 74, 98 

Connor, Josiah 147 

Corinth, Miss 49, 52, 57, 100, 103, 104, 122, 131 

Second flattie 06 

Cow Bells, Battle of 17 

Coy, L. AV 40, 58, 59, 79, 84, 88, 134, 149, 162, 165 

Crescent City Steamboat 60, 77 to 86 

Craig,Alfred 142 

Cross,William 10 

Cunningham, James 10 

Cunningham, John S 67, 76, 134 

Darby, Timothy 134 

Daugherty, Frank 10, 51 

Davis Mill, Miss 72, 75 

Dean,T.J 13,14, 51 

Detachments Companies A and I at New Madrid 50 

Deer River 59 

Dill, Harai Iton, Major ! . . 124, 127, 128, 134 

Disinfecting Steamboats 

Dodds, Jack, Co. F, Killed i 50 



INDEX. XI 

Donnelly, Geo. K., Capt 129 

Duck River 138 

Dunn, James 131, 147 

Diinsford, Charles 134 

East Point, Ga 145, 261 

Edingcr, M. D. 11, 25, 37, 57, 73, 74, 134 

Edisto River ■ 166, 285 

Eg-glcston, John Q., Dr 134 

Empress Steamboat ■ ' 29, 30 

Engineers, Regular Change to 66 

Enlistment Circulars 9,12, 66 

Enrollment 9 

Enler, Mathew, Sergt 128 

Eveans, Simon S., Capt 134, 126, 128 

Extra Duty Money 10, 12, 29, 58 83 

Expedition to Ma(?on Hills 83 

Dyersville ■ 86 

Austin, Mo 121 

Tracy Creek 136 

Duck River 138 

A Failure 139 

Camden 143 

Farmington, Miss C3, 57 

Payetteville, N. C 173,173,291 

Feuerbach, Henry 10, 33 

Capture 54 

Escape 73 to 108 

Finch, John 77 

Fish at Grand Lake, La 86 

Flad, Henry, Col 15, 23, 31, 59, 61, 67, 68, 73, 73, 75, 86, 88, 96, 97, 100, 103, 134, 142, 147 

FlatCreek,Mo 18, 20 

Tenn 137 

Floating Battery 60, 63 

Fog, In a 377 

Folsom, D. C 11, 34 

Folsom, Isaac Y 15, 60 

Foraging 70, 97. 146, 160, 373, 376, 303 

Fort Argyle, Ga 163,164 

Fort McAlister 164, 378 

FraudeMax 132,134 

Frazier, William (Comanche) 10, 35, 63 

Gast,Paulus 13,83, 135 

Gaines' Mill, Ga 145 

Gilchrist Bridge, N.C 173 

Giseke, Herman 134,135, 147 

Glenn, Addison N !;«, 143 

Goldsboro, N. C 175,176, 298 

Goodman, Thomas, Sergt 147 to 154 

Goodrich, Soloman 13, 68, 73, 85, 90, 96, 104, 134, 147 

Grand Junction, Tenn 71,86, 88 

Grand Lake, Ark 81, 86 

Grand Movement by the Right Flank to Jonesboro 257 

Grant, U. S., Gen 33, 63, 68, 76, 83, 95, 106, 133, 125, 177, 246, 303 

Graves, Daniel B 60 

Griffith, Capt 11 

Griffith, Piatt 54 

Grow, Asa K 11. 24 

Grow, Devillo 40 

Gross, Dr. Mill, Tenn 136 

Gun, Car 97 

Guns, Siege 33,33,34,45,53,83,83, 86 

Gum Swamp 171 

Hahn, W. J 135 



Xll INDEX. 

Haines Bluff 107 

Hamburg, Tenn 49 

Hampton, James V 103 

Hall, Adolphus 85 

Harding, Chester, Col 133 

Harrisonville, Mo 131 

Haskins, L. G., Sergt "• 37, 40 

Hasie, M. S., Maj 13,15,16,31, 66 

Hasie, Charles R " J3, 51 

Hawley, J. B 134 

Henderson, J. D 134 

Hendrick's Mill, Ga 155 

Henion,T.W 13,34,39, 33 

Hennings, Henry 34, 135 

Hensler,J.E ^ 133 

Hequambourg, Alex. G., Capt ' 54, 57 

Hight, W. E ■. 135, 147 

Hildebiddle, Chas. T 148 

Hill, E. M 11, 25, 27, 29, 30, 49, 51, 60, 63, 68, 78, 103, 103, 107, 134, 146, 163, 164 

Hill, William 14,58,66,67,68,74,75,134,146,177, 178 

Hillsboro,Ga 158 

Historical Memoranda 108, 177, 179, 303 

Hole in the Cash Box 31 

Holman's Bridge, S. C - 166 

Holly Springs, Miss 71, 73, 74, 75 

Honey and Persimmon Beer 93 

Hooker, H. B 73,134, 147 

Hooker, James W 73, 100 

Horseneck Swamp, N. C 173 

Howard, O.O., Gen 147,163,359, 274 

Hudson, H.E 15,24,58,71,73,97,134,147 

Hudsonville, Miss 73 

Hunt, Rev. E. L., Chaplain 98,103,134 

Injured 75,78,85,98, 143 

luka, Miss 100,101,103, 103 

Iron Mountain, Mo 133 

Irwinton, Ga 158, 159 

Jackson, Tenn., Operations at and Around 57, 71, 75, 76, 87 

Jacobson, A 15, 25, 50, 58 

Jefferson City, Mo 17, 26, 27 

Jencks Bridge 163 

Johns, N 13 

Johnsonville, Tenn 135,136,137,138,140,143,267, 373 

Jones, E. L 10, 33 

Jonesboro, Ga 144,357,359, 261 

Kansas City Mo 130,131, 304 

Kilp, Anthony 134 

King's Bridge, Ga 163, 164, 165 

Klingler, Frederick 120, 131 

Knapper, J. G 85 

Knower, Charles, Dr 15, 22, 56, 61, 105, 134 

Kotowsky, a Suttler • ■■ 21 

La Grange, Tenn 25, 75, 30 

Lake Providence, La 78,80, 81 

Lamine Bx-idge, Mo 17,25, 26 

Lancaster, L. R 134, 147 

Lape, H. T., Sergt 37, 40 

Laurel Hill, N. C 171,293 

L, Company, First 133 

Lewis, John 10, 54 

Left Wing in the Carolina Campaign 383 

Lexington, Mo 36, 121,122,133,124, 303 

Liberty Hill, S. C 169 



INDEX. Xlll 

Lochbiler, Christian 135, 147 

Logan, John A., Gen 64, 70, 131, 168, 172, 2% 

Louisville, Ky 178 

Lovejoy, Ga 258, 205 

Lucas, Stephen T 135, 147, 173, 174, 175 

Lyle, W. K 135, 147, 155, 159 

Lynche's Creek, N. C. 169, 170, 290 

Lyon, Nathaniel. Gen 120, 123 

Macon Bayou, La 26, 79, 81, 83 

McAllister, Fort 164, 278 

McClary, Ralph B. Dr.. 135 

McClure, James 10, 53 

McDonough, Ga 155 

McDowell, Steamer 49 

McLaren, John 12,24,40,58,59,67,79,135,146 

Marching Early and Late 170 

March to the Sea 104, 155, 271 

Preparations lor 264, 270 

Sherman's Poem 280 

Marietta, Ga , 143 

Mattis, S. W 12, 59, 68, 76, 79, 135, 147 

Memphis, Tenn 75, 76, 77, 86, 99, 103 

Merritt, A.J 14, 55, 75, 85, 134 

Midway, S. C 166, 285 

Millar, Wm., Capt 120, 131, 128, 129, 135 

Miller,JohnH 129 

Mills , 

Mobley, James 148 

Monticello, Ga 157 

Morgan, Morgan , 33 

Morrison, Charles W., Sergt 11 

Mosquitoes 49, 61 

Moscow, Tenn 71,72, 75 

Morton, John, P 134, 159, 146 

Morton, William, A 134, 147 

Morton, Marcus 134 

Muskets 17,22, 24 

Mules 25 

Muster Out : 178 

Murphy, John E., Capt 10,15,59,72,134,147 

Murphy, John, Lt 134, 147 

Naming the Regiments 9, 120, 13)3, 146 

Nashville, Tenn 103, 104, 105, 107, 1:35, 143, 267 

Neal, W. A., Dr 15,134,142,146, 104 

Negroes— See Slaves, Negro. 

Neuse River 175,176, 295 

Never Eat Hams 87 

Newberry, Oliver P 129 

Newhard, James M 124, 127, 134, 146, 163, 305 

New Madrid, Mo 28, 30, 31, 49, 123, 131 

New Market, S. C 170 

Nichols, Fred C, Maj 122, 134 

Nicholson, S. T., Capt 12, 24 

Nallings, Factory, Ga 156 

Numerical Strength '. 15, 108, 135, 146 

Obion River, Tenn 59, 73, 16, 87 

Observatory, near Farmingtou, Miss 53 

Ocmulgee River, Ga 156, 274 

Oconee River, Ga 159 

Odenbaugh, L., Capt 15, 53, 59, 64, 60, 08, 73, 134 

Ogeechee River, Ga 161, 162, 16:5, 164, 165 

Ohoopee River, Ga 160 

Orders, Official, etc 106, 133, 146, 262, 269, 270, 287 



XIV INDEX. 

Organization 9, 15,130, 131, 123, 133, 135, 146, 14T 

Orangeburg-, S. C 166, 287 

Otterville, Mo., Carap 19, 24 

Parker, Daniel G 59, 60, 73, 85, 88, 97, 103, 134, 147 

Partisan, Rangers 63, 63, 89, 90, 96, 97, 99, 138, 140, 143 

Patten, W. G., Capt 11, 24, 27, 29, 53, 54, 59, 95, 134, 147 

Patterson, Mo 123, 131 

Paysons, S. C '. 169 

Peabody, Everett, Col 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 138, 130, 304 

Pedee,l{iver 171,290 

Penfield, S. M 130 

Peters, Valentine 147 

Percy, John H 40 

Pilot, Knob, Mo 123, 131 

Pillow, Fort 49 

Pistol, How Large One May Look 53 

Pittsburg, Landing 123, 128, 130 

Pocahontas, Tenn 86.90, 97 

Pocotaligo, S . C 165, 381, 383, 385 

Poem, " Sherman's March to the Sea " 280 

Point Pleasant, Mo 33,49,60,63, 77 

Points, John A. 58, 135 

Politics , 35 

Ponton Bridge, etc 155, 156, 370, 377 

Poisoned at Sedalla 18 

Pope, John, Gen 16, 19, 37, 33, 36, 38, 40, 43, 45, 51, 95 

Powell, James E., Maj 133,124,125.136,137,128,305 

Powder, Explosion of, at Cheraw 171 

Prescott,A.R 14,24,40,68,70,85,86,97,134 

Kailroad Destroying 144, 145, 155 

Raleigh, N. C 175, 176, 177 

Randal's Mill, S. C 172 

Randolph, M 12, 24, 36, 39, 43, 53, 54, 56, 58, 66, 73 

Reenlisting (Veteran) 105 

Refugees and Loyalists — 300 

Reports, Official, etc 19, 47, 108, 128, 139, 348, 375 

Return of Men Captured 73, 98 

Richardson, Le Roy 31, 23 

Rickette, Joshua • 10, 15, 59, 68, 73, 79, 85 

Rivers Bridge, S. C 165,384 

River Patrol, Mississippi 61, 63 

River, Broad 168, 290 

Cape Fear 172, 173 

Canouchee 163 

Chattahoochee 143 

Coldwater 73, 88 

Congaree 167, 288 

Cii niberland 104 

Duck 138 

Edisto 166, 286 

Mississippi 15, 29, 49, 61, 63, 77 

Oconee 159 

Ocn\iilgee. . . 156 

Ogeechec 161, 163, 163, 164, 165, 274, 277 

Ohoopee 160 

Pedee 171, 290 

Saluda 167, 168, 288 

Tallahatchce ; 74 

Tassahaw 155 

Tennessee 49, 136 

Tuscumbia 55, 98 

Wateree 169, 390 

Rock Fish Creek 172, 174 



INDEX. XV 

Rose, Cass 148 

Roster 180 to 344 

Rowley, John D ' 13, 59 

Rowell, Charles T 10, 15 

Ryan, Richard A 10, 53 

Salkehatchie River, S. C 165, 284 

Saluda River, S. C 107, 168, 288 

Sal/man, Gustavus 134,147 

Sam YouDK, Steamer 77, 81 

Sanders, Jack 23, 77 

Sandtown, Ga 143, 258 

Sand's Mill, Ga 160 

Sanford, N 13 

St. Joseph, Mo 121, 133, 124, 131 

St. Louis, Mo .• 10, 17, 28, 30, 133, 178 

Sartain's Creek, Ga 160 

Savannah, Ga 165, 278, 283 

Sedalia, Mo 18, 30, 21 

Senthouse, John 78 

Sherman., W. T., Gen 18, 63, 91, 101, 103, 135, 145, 177, 345, 257, 368, 281, 301, 303 

Sherwood, Daniel B 59,71,75, 103 

Shelton, Charles S., Dr 15, 16, 44, 53, 74, 93, ICO 

Shiloh 51, 133, 134, 138, 130, 245, 257, 305 

Schilling's Bridge, S. C 166, 287 

Schmitz, Geo. F., Capt 123, 134, 127, 128 

Shinn, Geo. W 135 

Sickness , 17, 19, 24, 31, 44,50, 60, 61, 68, 71, 76, 77, 103, 105, 136 

Sikestown, Mo 32, 33, 49 

Simmons, Geo. F., Sergt 129 

Simons, John, Steamboat 61, 63 

Singleton, John W 129 

Skull, Human, Found '. 67 

Slaves, Negro. 17, 35, 27, 68, 264, 272, 276, 301 

Sraithland, Ky 103, 104 

Small Pox 136 

Smith's Bridge, S. C 167 

Smith's Saw Mill, Mo 19, 20, 24 

Smith, D. P 77 

Smith, James 18 

Smith, R.G 68, 81 

Snider, John A ; 33, 71 

Snyder's, Blufif, Miss 107 

Soper, Joseph 23, 77 

Spears, Henry 120, 131 

Springfield, Mo., Why March Was Not Made 30 

Staples, C. A., Chaplain 15, 35, 51 

Starr, John S i;tt 

Station Fifty-three 143 

Twenty-eight 143 

Fifty-seven 135, 136, 139 

Steamboat Empress 39, 30 

Emily 61 

Belle Memphis 61 

CityofAlton 81 

Crescent City 60, 77 to 86 

McDowell 49 

W.B.Terry 36,37, 38 

Sam Young 77, 81 

Storey, Oscar P., Capt 1;J5, 147 

Sumner, H. M 30, 24, 68, 135, 146, 164 

Sutler, S 31, 83, 95 

Tanner, Benj. R 134, 147, 159, 164, 172, 173, 174 

Tassahaw River 155 



XVI INDEX. 

Temperance in the Regiment 93, 96 

Templeton, Thos. G 13 

Terry, W. B., Steamer 36,37, 38 

Thirteenth Missouri 120, 131, 133, 304 

Proper 353, 255 

Thomas, James 148 

Thompson, Chas. R 11, 51, 58, 84, 134 

Thompson, Jacob E 167 

Thompson, Joseph 128 

Tiller's Bridge, S. C 169, 290 

Trenton, Tenn 73,76, 87 

Tressillion, Capt 16, 65, 70 

Turkeys, Hunting 22, 101 

Tunica, Francis 103, 135, 147 

Tuscumbia River 54,55, 98 

Tweeddale, W., Lt.-Col 

12, 35, 36, 39, 40, 43, 48, 59, P4, 67, 72, 75, 81, 85, 105, 107, 134, 147, 155, 158, 161, 164, 175 

Twenty-Fifth, Mo 103, 107, 108, 130, 133, 303, 305 

Unionists 89 to 93, 97, 100, 376, 301 

Van Horn, Robert T 130, 131, 133, 133, 127, 138, 129, 130, 132, 134, 303, 304, 305 

Vicksburg, Second Battalion at 85, 105, 100, 107 

Campaign 77, 86 

Vreeland,J.H 10, 32 

Wade, Chas. A., Capt 129,130 

Waller, JefiE C, Sergt 37, 40 

Ward, J. D 15, 24 

Ward, Wm. H 71, 135 

Warrenton, Miss 107 

War Secretary Visits 20, 38, 44 

Washington D. C 177 

Wateree River, S. C 109, 290 

Watermelons and Whisky '. ' 

Watson, Thomas, Corp 54 

AVaverly, Tenn 135, 136, 143 

Weather, Severe, etc 24, 30, 50, 07, 68, 76, 77, 103, 104, 136, 158, 285 

Webster, M. K 71 

Werth, G. L., Capt . 13, 37, 40, 59, 64, 66, 73, 76, 96, 101, 135 

West, Stephen H 37 

Whitcomb, A. D 14, 59, 60, 66, 67, 76, 147, 164 

White River Bridge ' 16 

Wide Outs 23 

Wilcox, N. W 14, 36, 58, 64, 68, 77, 79, 88, 98, 99 

Wilson, James 77 

Winnegar, Eli 58, 71, 83, 102, 134, 147 

Winnsboro, S. C 169, 290 

Women, Lewd 57 

Wood, Chas. C 79 

Wright, Alpha, Chaplain 134 

Wriglit's Bridge, Ga 162 

Yell, The Rebel 53, 145 

Young, Lewis 10, 53 

Young's Point 77, 81, 84, 106 



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